Geography and Race, State by State, Can Determine the Fate Of Both Mother and Baby CAP Report Outlines the Data K.C. Compton·Mar 17, 2020·9 min readThe U.S. has the highest maternal and infant mortality rates among any comparable developed countries. In 2017, it ranked 55th... Read More
Goodbye, Chipmunks. Hello, Books. Dea Wright Builds a Space for Children in Milwaukee.Mark Swartz·Apr 13, 2020·4 min readThe Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has called Dea Wright the city’s “early childhood education czar.” True to someone entrusted with czarlike power,... Read More
Using Policy to Plant a Powerful Future for New Mexico’s ChildrenK.C. Compton·Apr 16, 2020·7 min readThroughout the U.S., the care network for our nation’s youngest children is less a tightly woven safety net and more... Read More
Early Childhood Policy Meets Early Childhood Science, Part I: On School ReadinessElliot Haspel·Apr 21, 2020·6 min readAuthor’s Note: This moment, when the world has stopped spinning on its axis, presents an important opportunity to re-examine our... Read More
Early Childhood Policy Meets Early Childhood Science, Part 3: On Formal vs. Informal Learning SettingsElliot Haspel·Apr 28, 2020·5 min readAuthor’s Note: This moment, when the world has stopped spinning on its axis, presents an important opportunity to re-examine our... Read More
Big Plans for Little Kids Just Don’t Call It Shark Tank for Toddlers Mark Swartz·Apr 28, 2020·2 min readWell before the rest of us started hunkering down and conducting most of our meetings via online video platforms, Promise... Read More
More Bad News for Child Care: The Importance of Not Looking Away Our Broken Child Care System and How to Fix It, Part 2 The Editors·May 20, 2020·8 min readIn this three-part series, Dr. Laura Justice—executive director of the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy at The... Read More
Roots of Empathy: Where Children Learn the Language of Getting AlongK.C. Compton·May 21, 2020·9 min readAs founder of the groundbreaking Roots of Empathy program and author of the bestselling book by the same name, Mary... Read More
Waterford UPSTART: The Next Best Thing to Being ThereMark Swartz·Jun 2, 2020·4 min readThose of us who watched too much TV in the 1970s probably remember commercials extolling long-distance phone calls as The... Read More
Digital Inclusion: A Resource Guide for the Early Learning CommunityMark Swartz·Jun 8, 2020·2 min readA new report from New America, Pandemic Planning for Distance Learning, laments the failure of school districts across the country... Read More
Early Childhood Connector: Ounce of Prevention Creates Systems-Based Solutions for Building Early Learning CommunitiesMark Swartz·Jul 23, 2020·5 min readThere are more than 19,000 cities and towns and more than 13,000 school districts in the United States, and it’s... Read More
Learning Early to ‘Taste the Stillness’ Can Set a Child Up for Lifelong Well-beingK.C. Compton·Aug 11, 2020·6 min readWhen some of us think about meditation, our thoughts lean toward the sound of a softly gurgling fountain, a gentle... Read More