Our kids need to put the devices down and to play outdoors more. This isn’t just another parent waxing nostalgic...
Chelsea Page knew when she was pregnant with her second child that, once the baby was born, she was going...
Vermont Makes Child Care History with a Bipartisan Veto Override
Success Credited to a Decade of Advocacy, Lobbying Efforts, Coalition Building
On Tuesday, June 20, Vermont’s state legislature met in a special legislative session to consider a bipartisan veto override of...
Early Ed, Rebounding After COVID: Report Shows Pre-K Enrollment Hitting Record Levels
Mississippi and New Mexico were among the top states making gains in the 2022 school year.
Four-year-olds entering pre-K in Mississippi’s Lamar County Schools don’t spend their days on worksheets or bent over papers practicing their...
During her convention speech last week, Senator Elizabeth Warren, sitting in a now closed child care center, spoke about the...
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.”
Legislation that includes what an early childhood advocacy group says is an “historic investment in early childhood” has been signed...
Author’s Note: This moment, when the world has stopped spinning on its axis, presents an important opportunity to re-examine our...
How and why do children become aggressive – or even violent? How can we understand the true causes – and recognize the signs – before they take hold? Kenneth A. Dodge, Pritzker Professor of Public Policy at Duke University explains the important research that can help children and families. Filmed for Early Learning Nation’s Mobile Studio at the Society for Research in Child Development’s biennial meeting in Baltimore, MD, on March 22, 2019. #SRCD19
The Lahaina Fires Illuminate Our Immense Unpreparedness of Weather-Related Disasters
Will They Force Us to Reckon with the Vulnerability of Our Youngest Children in a Warming World?
There were children in Lahaina as fires razed the historic town of 13,000 people on August 8. One survivor fled...
What would happen if we prioritized children’s potential? That’s the question implicitly asked and explicitly answered in the recent paper...
