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Before Coronavirus, the U.S. Child Care Landscape Was Already in Crisis

Our Broken Child Care System and How to Fix It, Part 1

Laura Justice and Mark Swartz·May 5, 2020·6 min read

In this three-part series, Dr. Laura Justice—executive director of the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy at The...

Operating All the Levers

How Foundations Focused on Early Childhood Adapt and Re-Adapt to Changing Times

Mark Swartz·November 10, 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...

The Hunt Institute Releases Comprehensive Resource of State Directives for Child Care in Response to COVID-19

Leigh Giangreco·April 6, 2020·5 min read

Monitoring the patchwork of responses to COVID-19 across 50 states can be overwhelming. For example, in Washington state, a slowdown...

Resetting Expectations: 5 Takeaways from a Webinar on Screen Time in the Age of COVID-19

Mark Swartz·April 7, 2020·2 min read

Hiding in the basement from my wife and kids, I tuned into a recent webinar on screen time, part of...

Save the Children’s Creative COVID-19 Response

Mark Swartz·April 7, 2020·3 min read

It’s a cruel irony of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic: the youngest children, whose brains depend on education for healthy brain...

The Rapid-EC Survey Project: Listening to Families, Collecting the Evidence to Support Change

Mark Swartz·January 20, 2022·6 min read

What do you do when the world is turned upside-down? Once you stop panicking, you listen. That’s the core value...

Slowing the #SummerSlide

Mark Swartz and Art Hondros (Illustrator)·June 23, 2020·6 min read

Summer’s here, and the time is right for… helping our kids hold onto what they learned during this extraordinary year....

5 Top Takeaways from the Town Hall: How Richmond VA Is Approaching Reopening

Mark Swartz·July 14, 2020·2 min read

The trauma of COVID-19 is widespread but not evenly distributed. Some communities are suffering more than others. The Commonwealth of Virginia has seen encouraging numbers lately, but of course it is not out of the woods. A recent Town Hall for Richmond-area parents featured...

For Young Children, a RAPID Response to the Pandemic

Mark Swartz·June 4, 2020·4 min read

The Rapid Assessment of Pandemic Impact on Development, or RAPID project, gathers essential information on unmet needs and health-promoting behaviors for...

Top Takeaways from the Educare Webinar: Pandemic Responses in Three Cities

Mark Swartz·August 6, 2020·2 min read

“We’re not going to grow as a nation without a strong system of care,” Gladys Montes stated at the outset...