Vaccine distribution is under way, but the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic carry on, and the fallout will continue in...
Throughout most of human history and in most of the world, that paradigm of children playing outdoors as a part of childhood has been so integral as to be transparent. Not so in the U.S., where, according to the Child Mind Institute, the average American child spends four to seven minutes a day in unstructured play outdoors and more than seven hours a day in front of a screen. Washington State is changing that.
When Andrea (a pseudonym) was receiving the expanded Child Tax Credit last year, she would ask her three children what...
The idea is so logical it almost goes without saying: It is better, smarter and more efficient to handle small...
When Jack Shonkoff speaks, the early childhood field listens. Shonkoff, a pediatrician who leads Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child,...
Geography and Race, State by State, Can Determine the Fate Of Both Mother and Baby
CAP Report Outlines the Data
The U.S. has the highest maternal and infant mortality rates among any comparable developed countries. In 2017, it ranked 55th...
When University of Maryland Associate Professor Geetha Ramani and her colleagues visit early learning classrooms, they’re known as the “game people.” Ramani’s research shows not only the importance of teaching math skills, but also the effectiveness of what might seem like an obvious tactic: Make it fun.
Chelsea Page knew when she was pregnant with her second child that, once the baby was born, she was going...
Throughout the U.S., the care network for our nation’s youngest children is less a tightly woven safety net and more...
The American Rescue Plan signed by President Joe Biden on March 12 contains a number of potentially game-changing policies for...
Within a notoriously underpaid workforce, Louisiana’s child care teachers receive some of the lowest wages—making on average $9.77 an hour...
Two decades of neuroscience research have irrefutably proven that the most profound period in a child’s life is the time...
