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OPINION: Federal Programs and Data Demonstrate the Value of Relative and Neighbor Child Care Providers

It's Time for Federal Policy to Do the Same

Natalie Renew·September 13, 2023·2 min read

Family, friend and neighbor child care (FFN)—child care that is offered informally in families and communities by trusted family members...

OPINION: Want a High-Quality Education for Your Kids? Then Protect Equity in the Classroom.

Pamela Thompson and Daisy Han·May 24, 2023·3 min read

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey recently made headlines for forcing out the Secretary of the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education over a resource book...

OPINION: Let’s Not Throw Out Market Rate Surveys Just Yet: Funding Child Care in Today’s World

Dr. Theresa Hawley·February 17, 2023·4 min read

The child care market in the U.S. is broken. Despite rising prices for care, child care workers continue to make...

OPINION: Male Educators in the Child Care Workforce

Dr. Calvin Moore, Jr.·February 9, 2023·3 min read

The pandemic had a devastating economic impact on the educators who care for America’s children. A large percentage overcame tremendous...

Opinion: Raising Child Care Ratios is a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Idea

Elliot Haspel·March 15, 2022·3 min read

One of “Aesop’s Fables” goes like this: “A group of pigeons, terrified by the appearance of a Kite, called upon...

OPINION: Three Evidence-Based Ways to Support the Early Care and Education Workforce

JoAnn Hsueh·October 21, 2021·3 min read

The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated inequities and fragilities inherent in existing child care markets and decimated the supply of child care...

OPINION: Families Are in Crisis. Business, Government and Philanthropy All Need to Step Up

Antwanye Ford·October 19, 2021·3 min read

As anyone knows who reads Early Learning Nation, not to mention any major newspaper or magazine, child care has dangerously...

Opinion: Child Cares Look Safe — It’s Time To Act Like It

Elliot Haspel·June 10, 2020·7 min read

COVID-19 is a bizarre disease that defies easy answers. It impacts the lungs – except when it doesn’t. It brutalizes...

Opinion

OPINION: Federal Programs and Data Demonstrate the Value of Relative and Neighbor Child Care Providers

OPINION: Want a High-Quality Education for Your Kids? Then Protect Equity in the Classroom.

OPINION: Let’s Not Throw Out Market Rate Surveys Just Yet: Funding Child Care in Today’s World

OPINION: Male Educators in the Child Care Workforce

Opinion: Raising Child Care Ratios is a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Idea

OPINION: Three Evidence-Based Ways to Support the Early Care and Education Workforce

OPINION: Families Are in Crisis. Business, Government and Philanthropy All Need to Step Up

Opinion: Child Cares Look Safe — It’s Time To Act Like It

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