Lived Experience Sabra Bell remembers what it was like to be pregnant and low on funds. “Extra cash would have...
Dr. María E. Enchautegui had noticed a pattern. Puerto Rico had a very low labor force participation as compared to...
Yesterday, New Mexico voters made history: they overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment that makes theirs the first state to guarantee...
In each year from 2016 through 2018, more than 2 million parents of children age 5 and younger suffered “job...
How Child Care in Oregon is Saving the Construction Trade
Statewide apprenticeship program with generous child care subsidies also trains and recruits workers
There has been a construction boom in Oregon. Demand in the trade continues to rise yet 90 percent of construction...
Everyone likes good news, so it’s no wonder that when Mississippi went from being ranked second-worst in 2013 for fourth grade reading scores to 21st in 2022, the media kept using the m-word. “Everybody keeps on calling this a miracle,” says Dr. Jill Dent, executive director, Early Childhood Education, Mississippi Department of Education (MDE). “But we have worked really hard, and we were very intentional.”
Most U.S. schoolchildren know more about the Amazon rain forest than the ground beneath their feet and more about penguins...
New Mexico, a state long used to landing at the bottom of national rankings for children’s well-being, just made a...
When the Onondaga Citizens League saw that only 9% of the students in the Syracuse City School District were reading...
Infants and young children are rarely at the forefront of state and national policy agendas. For the good of the nation and the future of our world, they should be.
Vaccine distribution is under way, but the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic carry on, and the fallout will continue in...
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
