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Child Care Crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on our already fragile child care system. Providers have closed, others are struggling, and everyone it seems is realizing that without child care, America can’t get back to work. (Yes, child care is infrastructure.) Early Learning Nation is covering the field with rigor and nuance from a historical perspective (Universal Child Care was a great success during WWII), to the latest legislative proposals and to ways that we must transform the way we treat our undervalued and largely unseen child care workforce.

OPINION: Nearly Half of Child Care Teachers Leave Every Year — Why Aren’t We Talking About This?

Elliot Haspel·March 16, 2021·6 min read

Imagine you are building a car. You invest in a solid chassis, make sure the wheels are inflated, oil the... Read More

National Women’s Law Center’s #WeAretheBackbone Campaign Gives Voice to Child Care Workers

Mark Swartz·September 16, 2021·5 min read

Child care workers are the backbone of the economy and a smart new campaign from the National Women’s Law Center... Read More

Bank Street Makes the Case for Compensation

Puts Pay at the Center of the Child Care Dialogue

Mark Swartz·December 15, 2020·3 min read

It isn’t the 1950s anymore. The reality before and, presumably, after the pandemic, is that parents are outside of home... Read More

Child Care is Infrastructure. Biden’s Relief Bill Understands That

Bryce Covert·April 8, 2021·7 min read

After signing a $1.9 trillion relief bill into law, President Joe Biden is taking on his next big policy priority:... Read More

We’re Asking the Wrong Questions About COVID Cases in Child Care

Elliot Haspel·July 9, 2020·6 min read

The question that parents and practitioners really want to know is this: How safe are child cares? Or, put another way, how likely is my child (or am I) to catch COVID-19 from a child care center? In order to know that, we need to be able to answer how much transmission is occurring WITHIN child care centers? Until we ask the right questions and demand the right data, we’ll be stumbling in the dark. Read More

Early Childhood Policy Meets Early Childhood Science, Part 4: On The Future of Early Learning

Elliot Haspel·April 30, 2020·5 min read

Author’s Note: This moment, when the world has stopped spinning on its axis, presents an important opportunity to re-examine our... Read More

5 Top Takeaways from the Conversation: Early Childhood Philanthropic Leaders Discuss Deploying Risk Capital

Mark Swartz·September 15, 2020·3 min read

Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps... Read More

A Universal Preschool Campaign in Oregon Galvanizes Broad Support and Rewrites All the Rules

Elliot Haspel·October 20, 2020·6 min read

In this two-part series, Elliot Haspel explores how one Oregon region mobilized to generate an innovative, next-generation plan for universal... Read More

#KidsAreEssential: New Public Education Project Brings Together a Robust, Bipartisan Coalition to Capture the Child Care Moment

Mark Swartz·March 18, 2021·4 min read

“Families are maxed out,” says Myra Jones-Taylor. “Not just children, but their parents and the support networks they rely upon.”... Read More

Our Child Care Workforce: Three Women Reflect

Mark Swartz·August 20, 2020·4 min read

It’s a simple fact: child care is essential for the return of our workforce and the health of our economy.... Read More