Early Learning Nation’s community of experts, advocates, leaders and readers continues to grow. As much as we’d like to, we...
Children come into the world noticing. They notice sights, sounds, smells and the attitudes and emotions of people around them....
Early Learning Nation columnist Elliot Haspel recently joined Capita as a Senior Fellow working on establishing a new philanthropic fund...
Agents in Their Own Learning
Q&A with the Play Learning Lab’s Angela Pyle
Dr. Angela Pyle is director of the Play Learning Lab at University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education....
What’s the business case for increased business investment in local early education programs? Bill Canary, Alabama businessman and chairman of Canary & Co., who has spent years at the intersection of business, public policy and education – including early education – explains.
“Our health system is failing women” are the unequivocal opening words of a report issued this past spring by Early...
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) .
The Covid-19 pandemic ushered in unprecedented federal spending in the child care industry. When schools and child care programs shut...
Why Don’t We Just Do That?
Over Cocktails, Restaurateurs Hatch a Plan for Literacy
Three years ago, Amanda and John Horne, owners of Anna Maria Oyster Bar in Bradenton, Florida, heard that 51 percent of children in their local Manatee County school system couldn’t read at grade level by third grade. They were appalled.
“This was horrific,” Amanda says. “We had no idea that this was an issue.”
Over cocktails one night, Amanda and John wondered what they could do. Their clientele is largely composed of older “grandparent-type” people. They have four restaurants and a mailing list of more than 24,000 customers. What if they could pair children up with a grandparent figure or somebody who cares about them, read with them and maybe instill them with a love of reading?
The Power of First 10 Partnerships: 3 Examples
Part II of a two-part interview with David Jacobson
The First 10 initiative of the Education Development Center (EDC) supports a network that will soon include more than 60...
Frederica Perera, founder of the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health, didn’t write Children’s Health and the Perils of Climate...
“This is a moment for difficult conversations,” says Dr. Robert Blaine, who recently became senior executive of the Institute for...
