Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
Maria Montessori’s Influence on Early Education
Part 1 of a 3-Part Series
Part I: From Italy to the World Maria Montessori (1870-1952) might not be quite as famous as her near contemporaries...
Throughout most of human history and in most of the world, that paradigm of children playing outdoors as a part of childhood has been so integral as to be transparent. Not so in the U.S., where, according to the Child Mind Institute, the average American child spends four to seven minutes a day in unstructured play outdoors and more than seven hours a day in front of a screen. Washington State is changing that.
The Education Trust recently issued a new report, Young Learners, Missed Opportunities. Subtitled “Ensuring That Black and Latino Children Have...
A new report from New America, Pandemic Planning for Distance Learning, laments the failure of school districts across the country...
Growing the Pipeline of Early Childhood Educators
Neighborhood Villages Apprenticeship Program Graduates First Cohort and Continues to Grow
Cassandra Antoine always knew she wanted to work with children. Her goal was to open her own child care center,...
For decades, the Educational Alliance on Manhattan’s Lower East Side ran two parallel but separate early childhood programs. If you...
The idea of creating a national, universal child care system in this country got a turn in the spotlight during...
This week, Home Grown launched a new initiative—Leading From Home—focused on identifying and supporting provider leaders across the country. The...
On Election Day, voters in St. Louis, Missouri, didn’t just overwhelmingly vote for Joe Biden to be president, bucking the...
After learning about the Tools of the Mind curriculum from cofounder Deborah Leong (read our interview), writer Mark Swartz met...
In 1996, the United States overhauled its approach to helping poor families using a commonsense-sounding yet untested idea: the notion...
