Every year, Early Learning Nation magazine asks experts and friends what they’re thankful for in the early learning world. This...
Act Naturally: The Benefits of Wet Hands and Muddy Feet
An Interview with Richard Louv
How do we get today’s kids active and in tune with nature? And if the current generation of young parents missed out on personal experiences with nature, who will teach their children?
“Clarissa’s Battle” and the Campaign for Child Care Subsidies
Talking to the director and the title subject of an important new documentary
“Clarissa’s Battle” tells the story of a 10-year campaign for a tax increase to subsidize child care in Alameda County,...
The Consequences of Forced Separation
When Traumatized Children Return to Traumatized Parents
Science tells us that an outpouring of stress hormones shapes the way the brain develops. Trauma affects behavior, brain development, even the immune system. It’s devastating for all, but for newborns and youngest children, the impact can be profound.
Ken Burns: Committing to Complexity
Nothing against TikTok, but the documentarian still believes in sustained attention
If you add it all up, Ken Burns and PBS have broadcast over 200 hours of documentary films. It might...
Robin Hood FUELs the Future for Children
Shares Brain Science, Strategically Partners to Create an Early Learning Metropolis
The greatest city in the world. More than 100,000 children 0-3 growing up in poverty. Two facts that are painful to reconcile.
This is a job for Robin Hood. Unafraid to challenge the seemingly intractable, the grant maker and all-around poverty fighter combines rigorous data and strategic partnerships with powerhouse fundraising.
Here’s the story behind the $50 million, five-year Fund for Early Learning (FUEL) .
Frederica Perera, founder of the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health, didn’t write Children’s Health and the Perils of Climate...
How does Girl Scouts of America start shaping young girls into strong, successful adults? As CEO Sylvia Acevedo describes, it begins with early education.
Maxine Clark, founder of Build-A-Bear Workshop and Chief Executive Bear through 2013, is co-chair of the ReadyNation CEO Task Force...
For babies to have the best start in life, they need to form a deep emotional bond with the person...
Self control. Attention. Focus. These foundational skills make up a key area of early childhood development: Self-regulation. So what can teachers, parents, caregivers –even children themselves – do to help those skills grow? Oregon State University Professor Megan McClelland explains the science and the practical things we all can do. Filmed for Early Learning Nation’s Mobile Studio at the Society for Research in Child Development’s biennial meeting in Baltimore, MD, on March 22, 2019. #SRCD19
Unite/Disrupt/Transform with Child Care Aware of America
Register Today for the May 1-4 Symposium
Child Care Aware of America’s Symposium brings together individuals from across the country to discuss research, policy and practices related...
