The Rapid Assessment of Pandemic Impact on Development, or RAPID project, gathers essential information on unmet needs and health-promoting behaviors for...
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.
A new report from New America, Pandemic Planning for Distance Learning, laments the failure of school districts across the country...
COVID-19 is a bizarre disease that defies easy answers. It impacts the lungs – except when it doesn’t. It brutalizes...
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.
Steps to Sustainability: Fundamental Reforms to Our Systems of Child Care and Early-Learning Programs
Our Broken Child Care System and How to Fix It, Part 3
In this three-part series, Dr. Laura Justice—executive director of the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy at The...
It’s a simple fact: child care is essential for the return of our workforce and the health of our economy....
During her convention speech last week, Senator Elizabeth Warren, sitting in a now closed child care center, spoke about the...
One of the most frustrating aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic is the need to act with incomplete information, like driving...
Bipartisanship is increasingly rare these days, but even before the pandemic, child care was an issue that could reliably, occasionally,...
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...