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.
The Biden administration released a plan to invest in more midwives to address the maternal health crisis.
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
This may be one of the saddest facts you read in a while: One in three moms in the U.S....
Soon after the city of Las Vegas made a substantial investment in early learning with its Strong Start Academies Pre-K...
The United States has finally decided to invest serious resources in our children. It just took a pandemic for it...
When the Onondaga Citizens League saw that only 9% of the students in the Syracuse City School District were reading...
Paid family leave — to care for new children or aging relatives, or to recover from a serious health problem...
There’s an African proverb that’s now universally popular, and it says, “It takes a village to raise a child.” Governor Pritzker and I realize that the child care industry is part of the essential foundation that helps our children develop intellectually and emotionally. The industry allows working parents to focus on being productive on their jobs.
Monitoring the patchwork of responses to COVID-19 across 50 states can be overwhelming. For example, in Washington state, a slowdown...
Within a notoriously underpaid workforce, Louisiana’s child care teachers receive some of the lowest wages—making on average $9.77 an hour...
Free school meals were a godsend for Lynnea Hawkins long before the pandemic. Her son was living with his father...