You are the 75th Governor of North Carolina. What makes North Carolina unique among its peers? North Carolina is one...
Vanderbilt University’s Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center (PN-3) just issued its annual State Policy Roadmap, exploring ways that the states (and...
Child care workers are the backbone of the economy and a smart new campaign from the National Women’s Law Center...
States are taking early childhood education seriously. A recent report from the Alliance for Early Success documents the progress. (See...
Cast in America as a pay-to-play system with limited public funding, child care has long struggled with issues like difficult budgetary math, low educator pay, and highly variable quality. An unprecedented degree of investor activity is creating a cascade of risks for the sector, risks which threaten the path toward an inclusive child care system which works well for all children, parents, and early educators.
It’s now 2020, but for most people living in the United States, America’s work and family policies are stuck in...
Children come into the world noticing. They notice sights, sounds, smells and the attitudes and emotions of people around them....
As a preschooler, Victoria Ankrah was taught in a Paterson, N.J., Head Start program where her mother was a member...
On a recent sunny Friday morning at the Daposka Ahnkodapi School in Pawhuska, Okla., the day began with weekly circle...
Leveraging Medicaid & CHIP programs to Optimize Early Learning Development
Don't Miss Webinar: June 26
Two organizations that advocate for the social and emotional development of young children are holding a webinar to promote a “blueprint” they say can be used to leverage the Medicaid and CHIP health programs to advance such development.
When the Onondaga Citizens League saw that only 9% of the students in the Syracuse City School District were reading...
When the Pritzker Children’s Initiative (PCI) launched a first-of-its-kind Prenatal-to-Age Three State Grant Competition late last year, 42 of 45...
