Uché Blackstock didn’t plan to become a radical physician, but the pain and death she witnessed at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn radicalized her.
Book Review: New Book on Preschool Segregation Raises Under-Examined Questions
False Starts: The Segregated Lives of Preschoolers
This week brings the release of an important new book on early care and education. False Starts: The Segregated Lives...
Rebecca Rolland’s The Art of Talking with Children: The Simple Keys to Nurturing Kindness, Creativity, and Confidence in Kids explores...
“Empathy in All Its Aspects”
First Book's Paula Willey on Age-Appropriate Books to Build Kindness and Compassion
Paula Willey is a librarian’s librarian. Co-author of The Passive Programming Playbook: 101 Ways to Get Library Customers off the...
Why Invest in Public Campaigns to Promote Marriage When What’s Needed Are Effective Policies?
New Two Parent Privilege Book Strikes a Nerve
Prior to becoming a mother, Emily Ford worked as a personal fitness trainer in the Salt Lake City, Utah area....
The history of racism in the United States and its ongoing impacts on children and families experiencing state-sponsored displacement are on full display in this collection edited by Dettlaff.
A book intended as a catalyst for change, a call to action and marching papers for a national grassroots movement of those committed to addressing the racial, gender and economic injustices endemic to the ECE field.
“Every family has multiple balls in the air,” Kelly Fradin writes in Advanced Parenting. “Some are bouncy balls and if you drop them the show will go on. But others are glass and require more attention to keep intact.”
In flipping the script, Banks writes that birth is immense, that birth has existential, moral and theological significance at least as great as death.
Book Review: Getting Me Cheap: How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty
Unfiltered Portraits of Underpaid Mothers
Getting Me Cheap presents the stories and struggles of working women and mothers relegated to jobs on the labor market's lowest rungs.
Children 2, 3 and 4 years old—especially boys and Black children—are being kicked out of their schools at “staggering rates,” she writes—more than three times that of K–12 school children.
In her excellent book, Who’s Raising the Kids: Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children, Dr. Susan Linn brings this insidious behemoth to the foreground and underscores it with bright red lines.