There are more than 19,000 cities and towns and more than 13,000 school districts in the United States, and it’s...
Monitoring the patchwork of responses to COVID-19 across 50 states can be overwhelming. For example, in Washington state, a slowdown...
It’s been a stellar year at Early Learning Nation! We’ve created fresh, science-fueled content every week, spanning remarkable Early Learning...
Building Young Brains When Schools Are Closed, Part 1: Offline Activities
Three-part Series Offers Top Tips for Parents and Caregivers
This is part 1 of a a three-part series. Read Part 2 (Online Activities) and Part 3 (Outdoor Tips). We...
5 Takeaways from Jack Shonkoff’s EdRedesign Keynote
Welcome to Our New Column Covering Live Events
On May 19, Dr. Jack P. Shonkoff delivered the Education Redesign Lab (EdRedesign) spring keynote address via YouTube. Among his many distinctions, Dr. Shonkoff—Director of Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child and Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard Graduate School of Education—was awarded the 2019 LEGO Prize for revolutionizing the field of early child development. Here are our notes from his remarks.
Some experts say that when it comes specifically to teaching consent, sex education for young children can be done without being explicit, and it can help kids learn about boundaries and empathy when it comes to their own bodies and the bodies of other people.
Leveraging Medicaid & CHIP programs to Optimize Early Learning Development
Don't Miss Webinar: June 26
Two organizations that advocate for the social and emotional development of young children are holding a webinar to promote a “blueprint” they say can be used to leverage the Medicaid and CHIP health programs to advance such development.
A lead crisis plaguing Newark, N.J., is the latest large-scale threat posed by lead in water, a health hazard that’s...
Teaching is a creative profession, as much art as science, and for those who go into the field, it can...
Within a notoriously underpaid workforce, Louisiana’s child care teachers receive some of the lowest wages—making on average $9.77 an hour...
