Developed in the 1990s, Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) aim to increase the availability of high-quality early education programs,...
Call it baby talk, call it parentese or call it infant-directed speech—whatever term you choose, babies love it, in any...
Lived Experience Sabra Bell remembers what it was like to be pregnant and low on funds. “Extra cash would have...
When a baby peers into the face of an adult making the kind of goofy faces and noises most of...
If you were to ask a group of Latinx dads if they speak in any special way to their babies,...
According to Roberta Michnick Golinkoff & Kathy Hirsh-Pasek – researchers and co-authors of “Becoming Brilliant, What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children” – language is the single best predictor of how young children will do in school. That’s why they’ve created an innovative, easy way for practitioners to measure students’ verbal progress. Filmed for Early Learning Nation’s Mobile Studio at the Society for Research in Child Development’s biennial meeting in Baltimore, MD, on March 22, 2019. #SRCD19
What Do Young Children Know about Race? You Might Be Surprised.
I-LABS’ Equity Briefs for Parents, Providers and Policymakers
What does white privilege have to do with early education? I spoke to Drs. Marley Jarvis and Andrew Meltzoff of the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences at University of Washington (I-LABS) about how children’s first experiences of race determine later perceptions and attitudes.
Milwaukee Art Museum: Remarkable Art Lives Here
Children are Welcomed and Nurtured
The Milwaukee Art Museum is a glorious place. The payoff begins before you enter the doors with that gorgeous architecture...
Author’s Note: This moment, when the world has stopped spinning on its axis, presents an important opportunity to re-examine our...
When some of us think about meditation, our thoughts lean toward the sound of a softly gurgling fountain, a gentle...
