Sharing the Findings from Better Life Lab: Improving Child Care Assistance and Investment Part 4 of a 5-Part Series Rebecca Gale·Aug 23, 2022·10 min readOur country is in a child care crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic, which has shown how difficult it is for... Read More
Voices and Visions for Transformative Change from Child Care NEXTMark Swartz·Aug 16, 2022·9 min readChild Care NEXT, a new initiative of the Alliance for Early Success, supports diverse coalitions in states “ready to mount... Read More
New Report by the Century Foundation: The Child Care Cliff Meant the End of Federal Funds – But Some States Are Stepping In to Fix ThatRebecca Gale·Feb 7, 2024·10 min readThe Covid-19 pandemic ushered in unprecedented federal spending in the child care industry. When schools and child care programs shut... Read More
The Lesser-known Effort to Help Fix Child Care and Pay Teachers MoreKendra Hurley·Feb 8, 2022·4 min readWithin a notoriously underpaid workforce, Louisiana’s child care teachers receive some of the lowest wages—making on average $9.77 an hour... Read More
The Hunt Institute Releases Comprehensive Resource of State Directives for Child Care in Response to COVID-19Leigh Giangreco·Apr 6, 2020·5 min readMonitoring the patchwork of responses to COVID-19 across 50 states can be overwhelming. For example, in Washington state, a slowdown... Read More
With $125 Million Hanging in the Air, Vermont Sets the Stage for National Child Care Even After the Governor’s Veto, Sufficient Votes Exist for an Override Rebecca Gale·Jun 13, 2023·4 min readThe Vermont legislature is close to enacting their goal of bringing near-universal child care to their state with $125 million... Read More
Child Care is Now Free for Some Families–Which Raises Some Questions!Elliot Haspel·Aug 1, 2023·6 min readElliot’s Provocations unpacks current events in the early learning world and explores how we can chart a path to a... Read More
“This Is Our Moment”: Six Bank Street Policy Fellows Share Their StrategiesMark Swartz·Mar 21, 2024·6 min readBank Street College of Education’s second cohort of Early Childhood Policy Fellows includes 13 female leaders working toward quality and... Read More
New Ascend Fellows Announced at the Aspen Institute Fellows Catalyze Change Mark Swartz·Sep 23, 2022·8 min readFor 10 years, Ascend at the Aspen Institute has worked with families and partners to generate educational success and economic... Read More
Escaping the Policy Labyrinth with New America’s New Practice LabMark Swartz·May 16, 2023·5 min readAccording to New America’s recent “Lost in the Labyrinth” report, “Families with the youngest children stand to gain the most... Read More
5 Top Takeaways from the Webinar “A Path for Every State” A New Document Points the Way for Effective Policy Mark Swartz·Oct 5, 2020·4 min readBecause we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps... Read More
Building Early Learning Programs Around the World: Cynthia McCaffrey, Director, Office of Innovation UNICEFThe Editors·Dec 27, 2018·6 min readBuilding successful early learning programs is hard. Figuring out how to do it in some of the hardest to reach corners of the globe? That’s a case for Cynthia McCaffrey, director of UNICEF’s Office of Innovation. Read More