When the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Project reported earlier this year that women in the workforce have made the greatest contribution...
Building Young Brains When Schools Are Closed, Part 2: Online Tips and Activities
Our Top Tips for Parents and Caregivers
This is part 2 of a a three-part series. Read Part 1 (Offline Activities) and Part 3 (Outdoor Tips). How...
When some of us think about meditation, our thoughts lean toward the sound of a softly gurgling fountain, a gentle...
Sharing is one of the most important skills taught by early educators, so it’s ironic that the early education sector is just getting around to embracing sharing as a strategy to make small businesses more sustainable.
The increased public understanding that childhood adversity, including adverse childhood experiences, can cause trauma and toxic stress—and, in turn, have a lasting impact on children’s physical and mental health—presents an important opportunity to turn this awareness into action.
These Federal Policies Support Spanish-Language Child Care
How some states are building a multilingual child care workforce
A quarter of the children in the U.S. are Hispanic, according to the U.S. Census, yet 60 percent of Hispanic...
The Covid-19 pandemic ushered in unprecedented federal spending in the child care industry. When schools and child care programs shut...
Child Care NEXT, a new initiative of the Alliance for Early Success, supports diverse coalitions in states “ready to mount...
The request might not show up on any baby-shower wish list, but the gift practically every new parent wants most...
“The earlier we create an early childhood infrastructure for children and families, the better the guarantee we’ll have for a world-class city. I want that for Milwaukee, and for every child born and raised here.”
When a baby peers into the face of an adult making the kind of goofy faces and noises most of...
Family Child Care Providers See Gains Under Vermont’s New Child Care Law
Act 76, the state’s version of near-universal child care, is giving family child care an overdue boost.
Chelsea Chase’s house sits on a rural road in Vermont, four miles from interstate 91. A row of cubbies filled...
