Research Lab: Early Learning Nation
Picture this: a 3-year-old in a preschool classroom is playing with a popular toy when a classmate asks if they can have the toy. The first child says, “I’m playing with it.” This conversation can go a few different ways, some likely to end in the pre-K version of the Wide World of Wrestling while others ending with toys shared and peace maintained. The difference could be the child’s knowledge of emotion. To be able to regulate their emotional responses, […]...
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.

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