An increasing number of pediatric care facilities employ child life specialists—trained, certified professionals who focus on young patients’ experiences and...
‘Ten Birthday Cakes? We’ll Take Care of It’
Jazzy Sun Birthdays Connects Homeless Kids and Volunteers for Their Special Day
Volunteers with Jazzy Sun Birthdays are accustomed to a wide variety of requests for birthday themes from the children they...
The idea of creating a national, universal child care system in this country got a turn in the spotlight during...
When we hear the word, “lullaby,” most of us imagine something like the dictionary definition of “a gentle, quiet song that lulls a child to sleep,” a cradle song to soothe a baby’s way to the Land of Nod. For the past 12 years, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute has been refining that definition with its Lullaby Project.
When the Onondaga Citizens League saw that only 9% of the students in the Syracuse City School District were reading...
Bank Street Makes the Case for Compensation
Puts Pay at the Center of the Child Care Dialogue
It isn’t the 1950s anymore. The reality before and, presumably, after the pandemic, is that parents are outside of home...
The children attending Tiny Trees Preschool classrooms in Seattle and King County parks may look like they’re “just playing,” but those little boots are actually marching, climbing, stomping and squishing their way to a well-rounded preschool education.
Early on in the recently released documentary Through The Night, Deloris “Nunu” Hogan circles up the group of children under...
Valley Settlement: Deep-Listening Tour Becomes Targeted Programming for Colorado Community
El Busesitos Bring Free, Mobile Preschool to Five Neighborhoods
When children hop aboard one of Valley Settlement’s El Busesito mobile preschools in Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley, they’re taking a...
If parents and caregivers had hard evidence of a tool that would positively influence their child’s IQ, vocabulary and other...
When workers leave an industry in droves because the pay is better at fast-food chains or because they can’t take...
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
