Experts and officials often talk about “child care deserts” to describe regions without enough formal child care, but Maki Park...
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.
Build Back Better Helps, Not Hurts, Faith-Based Child Care
Critics are Overselling the Changes While Religious Programs Fight for Their Lives
While the investments in early care and education appear broadly safe, one unresolved design question concerns what should be required of child care programs operated by faith communities.
Child Care Innovation: Centralizing Administrative Roles
Part 3 of a 5-part Series
Our country is in a child care crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic, which has shown how difficult it is for...
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A new report from New America, Pandemic Planning for Distance Learning, laments the failure of school districts across the country...
Author’s Note: This moment, when the world has stopped spinning on its axis, presents an important opportunity to re-examine our...
After decades of disinvestment in child care that went largely unnoticed, the pandemic knocked the fragile system even more off...
Early on in the recently released documentary Through The Night, Deloris “Nunu” Hogan circles up the group of children under...
The Rapid Assessment of Pandemic Impact on Development, or RAPID project, gathers essential information on unmet needs and health-promoting behaviors for...