“We’re not going to grow as a nation without a strong system of care,” Gladys Montes stated at the outset...
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For decades, the Educational Alliance on Manhattan’s Lower East Side ran two parallel but separate early childhood programs. If you...
The Power of First 10 Partnerships: 3 Examples
Part II of a two-part interview with David Jacobson
The First 10 initiative of the Education Development Center (EDC) supports a network that will soon include more than 60...
Picture this: a 3-year-old in a preschool classroom is playing with a popular toy when a classmate asks if they...
Mind in the Making: 10 Years of Keeping the Fire Burning in Children’s Eyes
Research Becomes a Book; A Book Becomes a Movement
Not all adventurers wear rugged clothes and pith helmets; some carry laptops, notebooks and pens. But all are driven by the same impulse: They have a question and they won’t rest until they have an answer that satisfies them. “What’s over that mountain?” “Where does this river go?”
In the case for Ellen Galinsky, author of more than 100 books and reports and a self-described “research adventurer,” the driving question in 2000 was, “How do we keep the fire burning in children’s eyes?”
Soon after the city of Las Vegas made a substantial investment in early learning with its Strong Start Academies Pre-K...
Good for All Kids, Pre-K Programs Are Especially Beneficial for English Learners
Our divisive politics around immigration lag behind the diverse reality of our schools — and for English learners, early ed is a key to success.
For all the campaign arguments about immigration and the United States border, you’d think that we were embarking upon a...
Legislation that includes what an early childhood advocacy group says is an “historic investment in early childhood” has been signed...
When The New York Times declared, “America’s Mothers Are in Crisis” in February, it was hardly news to America’s mothers....
Infants and young children are rarely at the forefront of state and national policy agendas. For the good of the nation and the future of our world, they should be.
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...
Trauma, chaos and unrelenting stress can overwhelm anyone’s ability to nurture. For incarcerated parents, these hardships often have been a...
