Book Review Archives - Early Learning Nation

Where Should Women Channel Their Ambition?

Samhita Mukhopadhyay on The Myth of Making It in a World Set Up For Women to Fail

Haley Swenson·Jul 25, 2024·10 min read

Four years since the COVID-19 pandemic shook U.S. workplaces and its child care systems, parents continue to engage in vital...

Book Review: Children’s Health and The Peril of Climate Change

Mark Swartz·Feb 7, 2023·4 min read

Every year, air pollution-related causes kill more than half a million children before their fifth birthdays, and an even greater number are afflicted by lasting damage to their developing brains and lungs.

Grandmothering While Black – Our Policies Were Not Built for the Rise of Grandma-Led Households

Haley Swenson·Apr 24, 2024·7 min read

When it comes to caring for and educating children in the United States, Black grandmothers have never been on the...

Book Review: No Longer Welcome: The Epidemic of Expulsion from Early Childhood Education

K.C. Compton·Mar 8, 2023·6 min read

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.

Book Review: The Emotionally Intelligent Child

Mark Swartz·Aug 9, 2022·3 min read

Rachael Katz (MS Ed.) and Helen Shwe Hadani (Ph.D.) are excellent companions for mothers, fathers and caregivers of young children. Their views on parenting derive from their own families, as well as extensive reading into the science of brain development.

Book Review: A Surgeon’s Road Map to a “Parent Nation”

Mark Swartz·Apr 12, 2022·5 min read

Dana L. Suskind, surgeon and “self-trained social scientist,” balances an incredible amount of empathy and urgency in her second book, Parent Nation.

Book Review: Screaming on the Inside: How Modern Motherhood Explains the Child Care Crisis

Elliot Haspel·Dec 6, 2022·4 min read

As a man, a husband and a father, it turns out reading a book about motherhood could hardly be more valuable.

Chronicling a Social Catastrophe, So We Can Prepare Better for the Next One

Mark Swartz·Oct 25, 2022·4 min read

At the start of the pandemic, Anya Kamenetz realized her apartment had a built-in alarm system. It went off at...

Book Review: Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit

K.C. Compton·Aug 18, 2022·6 min read

Along with this history of metastatic industrial development, staggering pollution, relentless corruption and breathtakingly bad policy, Rector presents the other side of the coin: the fierce, courageous, dogged commitment of activists pushing back decade after decade, demanding cleaner air, better working conditions and water that wouldn’t poison their children.

Book Review: “The Stolen Year” by Anya Kamenetz: Heart-Wrenching, Heart-Warming Stories of Children in the Pandemic

Mark Swartz·Oct 13, 2022·4 min read

Children and the people who love them endured a lot in 2020 and 2021. This was one of the most trying times in human history, and NPR education correspondent Kamenetz eloquently and humanely depicts the panic that reigned in every household, office, court and classroom.