During her convention speech last week, Senator Elizabeth Warren, sitting in a now closed child care center, spoke about the...
Playful Learning Landscapes
Meeting Children Where They Are with What They Need
Plaza. Piazza. Town square. The names may differ region to region, but they describe similar spaces: a place where residents...
Universal Child Care May be Coming to Vermont
Could Provide a Blueprint for Success in Other States
In a nation where patchwork child care infrastructure has been wrecked by 18 months of pandemic, the state of Vermont...
One sentence can hold a lot of heartache. This one, for instance: Babies born to mothers on Medicaid died at...
Unequal Access: The Failure of Special Education in Indian Country, Part 1
An ELN investigation has revealed a systemic breakdown
Candy Mink Springs, Okla.—Until Sequoyah Littledeer was almost four, he didn’t speak. As a non-verbal infant and toddler, his parents...
Mobilizing Communities So All Children Make the Grade
Pop Up Neighbor events, community, collaboration, mobilization
Even without advance promotion, when word got out that the SuperMatt Laundromat in Sarasota, Florida, was offering free laundry all day, neighborhood residents formed a steady stream of customers.
Not only was laundry-and-all-the-fixings free—a boon to low-income families who can ill afford the $35 to $50 a week they spend trying to keep their kids in clean clothes—the food bank was there with abundant food to restock their pantries.
Best of all, there were books—lots of books—and plenty of volunteers to read to children while the adults did as many loads of laundry as needed. When the children left, books went home with them.
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
Last November, voters in and around Grand Rapids, Michigan’s second-largest city (population 200,000), made Kent County the first county in Michigan to approve a referendum that raises property taxes specifically for early childhood.
When Jack Shonkoff speaks, the early childhood field listens. Shonkoff, a pediatrician who leads Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child,...
When Venicia Gray walked into her OB-GYN’s office in 2019, she asked a direct question: “What are my chances of...
Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy made headlines and history when it took 15 rounds of votes for his...
“Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone’s disbelief,” said August Wilson, playwright of the great “Pittsburgh Cycle.”...
