Vanderbilt University’s Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center (PN-3) just issued its annual State Policy Roadmap, exploring ways that the states (and...
The trauma of COVID-19 is widespread but not evenly distributed. Some communities are suffering more than others. The Commonwealth of Virginia has seen encouraging numbers lately, but of course it is not out of the woods. A recent Town Hall for Richmond-area parents featured...
Experts say that every dollar invested in care produces $9 in spending. Child care spending in particular both creates jobs...
This week, Home Grown launched a new initiative—Leading From Home—focused on identifying and supporting provider leaders across the country. 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...
In the popular imagination, the story of child welfare in America goes like this: Acting on a report of abuse...
Book Review: What the Eyes Don’t See: Fueled by Idealism, Backed by Science
How a Pediatrician Confronted a Public Health Crisis and Rocked a Nation
Hanna-Attisha’s riveting first-person account of the public health catastrophe that has become known as the Flint water crisis not only lays out the facts of how a government poisoned its own people; it lays open the heart of a doctor who swore an oath to protect the health and lives of the children affected.
Free school meals were a godsend for Lynnea Hawkins long before the pandemic. Her son was living with his father...
Two decades of neuroscience research have irrefutably proven that the most profound period in a child’s life is the time...
States are taking early childhood education seriously. A recent report from the Alliance for Early Success documents the progress. (See...
Poverty Wages, Staffing Crisis: New Federal Rule Looks to Sustain Head Start
New federal rule raises annual Head Start teacher salaries by $10,000 over time — but congressional funding is not guaranteed.
Andrea Muñeton has been a Head Start educator in California for 14 years. The work is important but greuling, she...
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.”
