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Study Shows Stronger Outcomes for English Learners with Early Access to Pre-K Programs

Benefits Include Stronger Attendance, English Language Development and Early Literacy

Leigh Giangreco·June 10, 2022·5 min read

Bilingual educators weren’t immune to the COVID-19 burnout that hit teachers this year. For example, last October, Illinois school districts...

Serve and Return: More Than a Game for Parents, Caregivers and Children

The Editors·September 26, 2019·1 min read

The most important game of serve and return that a parent can play has nothing to do with tennis. As...

Little Peepers Forest Preschool: Learning the World Just Outside the Doorway

K.C. Compton·December 3, 2019·7 min read

Most U.S. schoolchildren know more about the Amazon rain forest than the ground beneath their feet and more about penguins...

Breaking Poverty’s Grip: New Head Start Study of Second-Generation Statistics Show It Can Be Done

K.C. Compton·July 12, 2022·6 min read

“Five- and six-year-old children are inheritors of poverty’s curse and not its creators.” –President Lyndon B. Johnson, May 1965 In...

“How Is My Baby Doing, and How Am I Doing as a Parent?”: Part II of Interview with Brazelton Touchpoints Center’s Joshua Sparrow

Mark Swartz·November 24, 2021·4 min read

In Part I of this interview, Dr. Joshua Sparrow, executive director of the Brazelton Touchpoints Center, delves into the legacy...

Learning to Read Online: It’s Possible, Doable and Could Involve Chicken Hats

K.C. Compton·June 21, 2022·6 min read

For adults who’ve spent much of the past two years watching PowerPoint presentations while attending Zoom meetings, the idea of...

Unstructured Play and Self-Regulation Study Shows Children Need Time and Space to Make Their Own Fun

Alice Bradley·June 9, 2022·4 min read

Common wisdom dictates that young children thrive on structure; as a result, caregivers may feel pressured to fill up children’s...

Universal, Public Preschool Found to Help Students Long After They Graduate

Proof that Investing in Universal Preschool Can Pay Off

Bryce Covert·May 21, 2021·5 min read

Is universal, public preschool good for children? Is it worth spending billions of dollars on, or will that money be...

Freed Advocate Yigit Aksakoglu Reflects on His ZERO TO THREE Fellowship

Mark Swartz·December 18, 2020·5 min read

Last year, Turkish child advocate Yigit Aksakoglu blogged about his work building playgrounds. “Istanbul is a city of 15 million...

Latinx Fathers Speak Their Babies’ Love Language, Though They Might Not Realize It

K.C. Compton·February 16, 2022·7 min read

If you were to ask a group of Latinx dads if they speak in any special way to their babies,...