Faisa Farole is the first Black midwife to own and operate a freestanding birth center in the state of Washington....
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.
Mobilizing Communities So All Children Make the Grade
Pop Up Neighbor events, community, collaboration, mobilization
Even without advance promotion, when word got out that the SuperMatt Laundromat in Sarasota, Florida, was offering free laundry all day, neighborhood residents formed a steady stream of customers.
Not only was laundry-and-all-the-fixings free—a boon to low-income families who can ill afford the $35 to $50 a week they spend trying to keep their kids in clean clothes—the food bank was there with abundant food to restock their pantries.
Best of all, there were books—lots of books—and plenty of volunteers to read to children while the adults did as many loads of laundry as needed. When the children left, books went home with them.
ParentCorps Builds Relationships from the Ground Up
“You’re the Expert on Your Child”
If hearts and minds don’t change, neither will the social structures holding us back. But what’s the best way to...
BOOK REVIEW: Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty
An Indictment of U.S. Policy and Clarion Call to Fix It
Thanks to U.S. public policy going back decades, nearly 40 million people in this country live below the poverty line...
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has called Dea Wright the city’s “early childhood education czar.” True to someone entrusted with czarlike power,...
Eliminating Structural Inequities in Workforce Preparation
New Grants from the Early Educator Investment Collaborative
Georgia State University (GSU) professor Tonia R. Durden believes the impact of her work extends far beyond the Metro Atlanta...
When the Onondaga Citizens League saw that only 9% of the students in the Syracuse City School District were reading...
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
The ice cream truck, that American institution, is brilliant in its simplicity. Rather than waiting for kids to show up...
The Founding Fathers built competition among the states into our system of government. With 50-plus laboratories for democracy, we’re bound...
In one form or another, all 50 states and the District of Columbia recognize the importance of early education and...
