If parents and caregivers had hard evidence of a tool that would positively influence their child’s IQ, vocabulary and other...
In upstate New York, like many other parts of the country, the supply of child care has failed to keep...
Faisa Farole is the first Black midwife to own and operate a freestanding birth center in the state of Washington....
We have a great public library in Takoma Park, Md., but ever since the first Little Free Libraries started popping...
Mobilizing Communities So All Children Make the Grade
Pop Up Neighbor events, community, collaboration, mobilization
Even without advance promotion, when word got out that the SuperMatt Laundromat in Sarasota, Florida, was offering free laundry all day, neighborhood residents formed a steady stream of customers.
Not only was laundry-and-all-the-fixings free—a boon to low-income families who can ill afford the $35 to $50 a week they spend trying to keep their kids in clean clothes—the food bank was there with abundant food to restock their pantries.
Best of all, there were books—lots of books—and plenty of volunteers to read to children while the adults did as many loads of laundry as needed. When the children left, books went home with them.
New York City’s Robin Hood Foundation is known for applying rigorous metrics to evaluate the poverty-fighting impact of its grants,...
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
The Zaentz Early Education Initiative at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) emphasizes research that drives policy and practice,...
When the Onondaga Citizens League saw that only 9% of the students in the Syracuse City School District were reading...
The ice cream truck, that American institution, is brilliant in its simplicity. Rather than waiting for kids to show up...
Those of us who watched too much TV in the 1970s probably remember commercials extolling long-distance phone calls as The...
Imagine you work for an advocacy organization in one state and you want to find out how other states are...
