Marti Beard is a fifth-generation rancher in addition to being vice president of Early Childhood Programs of Nebraska Children and...
New York City’s Robin Hood Foundation is known for applying rigorous metrics to evaluate the poverty-fighting impact of its grants,...
The quest for reliable funding of children’s programs often runs through local government, and First Steps Kent of Kent County,...
Most of us have heard of the “summer slide” in which children lose some of the lessons they’ve learned during...
Generation Hope: One Desperate Teen’s Story Grows into Hope for Hundreds
Collecting Data, Providing Services, Transforming Lives of Student Parents
Two little pink lines. Sometimes that’s all it takes to derail a person’s life and torpedo any plans they might...
Anyone acquainted with telenovelas—those Spanish-speaking cousins of soap opera—recognizes the characters and themes: Love triangles! Family secrets! Ruthless bad guys!...
Education researchers know a lot about how most children learn to read. An Education Week piece by Sarah Schwartz and...
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.
There’s a truism among child-mindful urban planners: Children are an indicator species for cities. “Just as the presence of salmon...
Vocabulary for the Win with Conversational Turns
A Scalable Program for Early Learning
The massive inequality that characterizes children’s opportunity to learn and succeed in the U.S. is no secret. Children who have...
