Maria Montessori Myth Busting
Part 2 of a 3-Part Series
The history of its proliferation and multi-pronged institutional dissemination has fostered a degree of confusion and myths about the founder’s intentions and how the method is practiced.
Maria Montessori’s Influence on Early Education
Part 1 of a 3-Part Series
Part I: From Italy to the World Maria Montessori (1870-1952) might not be quite as famous as her near contemporaries...
Martha’s Vineyard, an island south of Cape Cod, Mass., has long been known as a resort community for prosperous Black families as well as a gathering place for Democratic Party leaders and supporters. There’s more to the picture, however, than summertime wealth and power. A recent report based on the American Communities Survey described “a continuing housing crisis and some of the deeply ingrained inequality affecting the rest of the country.”
New York City’s Robin Hood Foundation is known for applying rigorous metrics to evaluate the poverty-fighting impact of its grants,...
Although trying to keep up with a toddler can feel like opening day at the goat rodeo, the movement between...
Last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suddenly became the federal agency everybody knew about. Responding to...
In one form or another, all 50 states and the District of Columbia recognize the importance of early education and...
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.
More Bad News for Child Care: The Importance of Not Looking Away
Our Broken Child Care System and How to Fix It, Part 2
In this three-part series, Dr. Laura Justice—executive director of the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy at The...
For decades, the Educational Alliance on Manhattan’s Lower East Side ran two parallel but separate early childhood programs. If you...
Mount Sinai Pilot Project: Creating a Culture Shift in Pediatric Health Care
Case Study Available for Download
Over a few nights in 2019, a radical change took place at New York’s renowned Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital....
Neurons and Neighborhoods in the Nation’s Capital
How a D.C. Women’s Shelter Is Becoming a Leader in Multigenerational Therapy
Early in the pandemic, Dr. Alicia Lieberman, director of the Child Trauma Research Program at the University of California, San...
