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Business, Nonprofits, Chambers of Commerce Build Coalitions

Mark Swartz·Oct 8, 2020·3 min read

In the morning, as children dash into their preschools and home-based care sites, hanging coats and finding favorite toys or...

Mark Swartz·Sep 28, 2020·5 min read

In the popular imagination, the story of child welfare in America goes like this: Acting on a report of abuse...

K.C. Compton·Sep 22, 2020·7 min read

If parents and caregivers had hard evidence of a tool that would positively influence their child’s IQ, vocabulary and other...

Mark Swartz·Sep 10, 2020·3 min read

The Founding Fathers built competition among the states into our system of government. With 50-plus laboratories for democracy, we’re bound...

K.C. Compton·Sep 3, 2020·8 min read

Most of us have heard of the “summer slide” in which children lose some of the lessons they’ve learned during...

K.C. Compton·Aug 11, 2020·6 min read

When some of us think about meditation, our thoughts lean toward the sound of a softly gurgling fountain, a gentle...

Mark Swartz·Jul 23, 2020·5 min read

There are more than 19,000 cities and towns and more than 13,000 school districts in the United States, and it’s...

Mark Swartz·Jun 8, 2020·2 min read

A new report from New America, Pandemic Planning for Distance Learning, laments the failure of school districts across the country...

Mark Swartz·Jun 2, 2020·4 min read

Those of us who watched too much TV in the 1970s probably remember commercials extolling long-distance phone calls as The...

K.C. Compton·May 21, 2020·9 min read

As founder of the groundbreaking Roots of Empathy program and author of the bestselling book by the same name, Mary...

Our Broken Child Care System and How to Fix It, Part 2

The Editors·May 20, 2020·8 min read

In this three-part series, Dr. Laura Justice—executive director of the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy at The...

Just Don’t Call It Shark Tank for Toddlers

Mark Swartz·Apr 28, 2020·2 min read

Well before the rest of us started hunkering down and conducting most of our meetings via online video platforms, Promise...

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