Policymakers increasingly understand the importance of expanding the availability of quality early care and education for young children. In good...
The Trump administration has rejected a proposed ban on a pesticide used for generations that repeatedly has been linked with,...
Boosting California’s Early Childhood Capacity
Sacramento Council Member Eric Guerra Fights for Kids
The son of farmworkers, Eric Guerra remembers tagging along with his mother while she picked figs for a dollar per...
Minnesota Makes Major Strides on Behalf of Children and Families
Legislative Session Brings $750 Million in New Funds for Child Care and Early Learning Programs
There are major changes coming for families in Minnesota. That is how Representative Dave Pinto explains it. The Democratic legislator,...
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.
With $125 Million Hanging in the Air, Vermont Sets the Stage for National Child Care
Even After the Governor’s Veto, Sufficient Votes Exist for an Override
The Vermont legislature is close to enacting their goal of bringing near-universal child care to their state with $125 million...
5 Top Takeaways from the Webinar “A Path for Every State”
A New Document Points the Way for Effective Policy
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
Mighty, Mighty Bosses
Florida Executives Apply Peer Pressure to Advance Early Childhood
“We as a nation are taking parenting seriously for the first time,” economic researcher Martha Gimbel recently told The Washington...
One sentence can hold a lot of heartache. This one, for instance: Babies born to mothers on Medicaid died at...
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.
Fixing a Broken Marketplace
Talking Childcare with Elliot Haspel
Sometimes what seems like idealism at first can actually be canny realism. Case in point: Elliot Haspel’s recent book Crawling...
What two words are the universal answer to practically any question dealing with the reproductive health of incarcerated women in...
