Elliot’s Provocations

Linking early child care and school-aged care is a good idea both on the merits and the politics. I’m hardly the first one to point this out, but I want to highlight the opportunity here as we head into summer break and the acute headache it causes for many families.

A recent column by the popular center-left writer Matt Yglesias reinforced for me yet again why we need a different foundation for our care arguments.

Elliot’s Provocations unpacks current events in the early learning world and explores how we can chart a path to a...

For my last column of the year, I want to touch on a less-discussed but not-unimportant question: what in the heck should we call the care and education of children during the first five years of their life?

As I travel internationally, I have been thinking a lot about how we position child care in the United States. I am increasingly concerned by an ascendant school of thought that emphasizes a role for employer-sponsored child care benefits.

Elliot’s Provocations unpacks current events in the early learning world and explores how we can chart a path to a...

If you’ve been following my work at all, you know I bristle at many “incremental” solutions to child care challenges.

Welcome to the first edition of my new monthly column, “Elliot’s Provocations.” The goal of this column is to unpack...

Two pieces of news over the past few weeks are causing me to update my prediction and become far more concerned about the coming years.