When workers leave an industry in droves because the pay is better at fast-food chains or because they can’t take...
There’s a truism among child-mindful urban planners: Children are an indicator species for cities. “Just as the presence of salmon...
Experts and officials often talk about “child care deserts” to describe regions without enough formal child care, but Maki Park...
Last November, voters in and around Grand Rapids, Michigan’s second-largest city (population 200,000), made Kent County the first county in Michigan to approve a referendum that raises property taxes specifically for early childhood.
Legislation that includes what an early childhood advocacy group says is an “historic investment in early childhood” has been signed...
Early Learning Nation magazine often focuses on child care and early education, which comprise about one-fifth of the $648 billion...
Cokis is an immigrant mom and grandmother in Arizona. Her struggles with the trauma that she and one of her...
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.
The red tote bags hold adventure and history. They hold laughter and struggle. They hold inspiration and understanding. Recently, the...
What would happen if we prioritized children’s potential? That’s the question implicitly asked and explicitly answered in the recent paper...
Claudia Goldin, recent Nobel Prize winner and the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University, is a trailblazer who...
Takoma Park, Md., population 17,672, is often gently lampooned by the Washington Post for its progressive politics and community activism....
