In a 2016 Atlantic feature, Alana Semuels calls Fairfield County, Conn., the epicenter of American inequality. “Bridgeport,” she writes, “an...
What a Difference Extended-Hours Childcare Makes
17-Hour Childcare in Rochester Is a Gamechanger for Working Parents
When many daycare centers are closing shop for the day, Rosa Marie at Rochester’s Marvelous Mind Academy is just getting...
We have a great public library in Takoma Park, Md., but ever since the first Little Free Libraries started popping...
One thought comes immediately to mind when looking at Stanford University researchers’ systematic review of 66 studies on the value...
When the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Project reported earlier this year that women in the workforce have made the greatest contribution...
Franklin County—the most populous county in Ohio and home to Ohio State University (OSU)—is also one of the Buckeye State’s...
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.
Vanderbilt University’s Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center (PN-3) just issued its annual State Policy Roadmap, exploring ways that the states (and...
In upstate New York, like many other parts of the country, the supply of child care has failed to keep...
If parents and caregivers had hard evidence of a tool that would positively influence their child’s IQ, vocabulary and other...
Vaccine distribution is under way, but the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic carry on, and the fallout will continue in...
Claudia Goldin, recent Nobel Prize winner and the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University, is a trailblazer who...
