Happy Spring! Your spring fever is kicking in, you’ve got a ton on your plate and pollen is already making...
A new report from New America, Pandemic Planning for Distance Learning, laments the failure of school districts across the country...
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...
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.
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.
Elected leaders tend to shun compromise during campaign season, and these days it feels like we’re always in campaign season....
In the popular imagination, the story of child welfare in America goes like this: Acting on a report of abuse...
A recent report by a National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine committee declared the need to promote science, technology,...
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.
Imagine you work for an advocacy organization in one state and you want to find out how other states are...
“Literacy learning for young children is not bound in time and space,” proclaims Susan Neuman’s latest paper for Reading Research...
Education researchers know a lot about how most children learn to read. An Education Week piece by Sarah Schwartz and...