Guilford, the third largest county in North Carolina, was the site of the 1960 Woolworth counter sit-in that helped spread...
Takoma Park, Md., population 17,672, is often gently lampooned by the Washington Post for its progressive politics and community activism....
Claudia Goldin, recent Nobel Prize winner and the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University, is a trailblazer who...
Trauma, chaos and unrelenting stress can overwhelm anyone’s ability to nurture. For incarcerated parents, these hardships often have been a...
When the Pritzker Children’s Initiative (PCI) launched a first-of-its-kind Prenatal-to-Age Three State Grant Competition late last year, 42 of 45...
A recent report by a National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine committee declared the need to promote science, technology,...
High-quality early education leads to lifelong success for children and their communities, and it cannot happen without professionals cultivating and...
In 1999, addressing AmeriCorps members on the program’s fifth anniversary, President Bill Clinton said, “There is no question that you...
Playful Learning Landscapes
Meeting Children Where They Are with What They Need
Plaza. Piazza. Town square. The names may differ region to region, but they describe similar spaces: a place where residents...
As the U.S. finally appears to be coming to grips with how essential childcare is to future economic growth—and how...
“His name is Spencer,” declared the kindergartner proudly holding out her hand. “Spencer the Slug.” Other students jostled for a...
Last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suddenly became the federal agency everybody knew about. Responding to...