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...
PBS’ “Molly of Denali” a Hit with Kids and Parents
Young, Indigenous Vlogger Introduces Life in Rural Alaska
Molly Mabray is a 10-year-old of three Athabascan tribes, Gwich’in, Koyukon, Dena’ina, who lives in a small Indigneous village in rural Alaska. She’s also PBS’ newest character in the slate of children’s animated shows and the first Native American lead in history. So far “Molly of Denali” has been a hit not only among its target audience of ages 4 to 8 but with their parents and those who have grown enamored with Molly.
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.
Playful Learning Landscapes
Meeting Children Where They Are with What They Need
Plaza. Piazza. Town square. The names may differ region to region, but they describe similar spaces: a place where residents...
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...
The Founding Fathers built competition among the states into our system of government. With 50-plus laboratories for democracy, we’re bound...
“His name is Spencer,” declared the kindergartner proudly holding out her hand. “Spencer the Slug.” Other students jostled for a...
For decades, the Educational Alliance on Manhattan’s Lower East Side ran two parallel but separate early childhood programs. If you...
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...
On Election Day, voters in St. Louis, Missouri, didn’t just overwhelmingly vote for Joe Biden to be president, bucking the...
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.