Tiffany Shlain’s Vision for Building Community
Embrace Beauty, Be Present, Always Carry a Notebook
This is the fourth entry in Early Learning Nation’s Community Cultivators series, and you would think, by now, we’d have...
Home-based child care is the most prevalent form of child care in the United States and particularly for infants and...
Access to quality early childhood education is essential to the long term health and well-being of our children, it is also an investment in the workforce of the future. Virginia is ranked #1 in the nation for business and we know the only way to maintain that status is to support the leaders of tomorrow.
Cash Transfers: A Proven Strategy to Improve Outcomes for Children and Families
The Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center conducted an analysis on how cash transfers impact young children and their families. Here’s what it revealed.
Research has shown that birth through age 3 is the period of a child’s most rapid and sensitive development, and...
Although we’re back to attending in-person events with our Early Learning Nation Studio, we’ll continue to recap top virtual conversations,...
Has the 2024 Election Cycle Set the Stage for a National Consensus on Child Care?
Child care may be closer to an open window of opportunity than our divided politics would suggest possible.
A famous theory in political science asserts that windows for major policy reforms come along only every so often, and...
New York City’s popular 3-K-for-All program was supposed to offer free preschool to all of the city’s 3-year-olds. But last...
The Universal Child Care and Early Learning Act: The Boldest Plan On Offer Is Quietly Received (3-Part Series, Part 2)
Series: Which Path Forward?: Analyzing the Flurry of Federal Child Care Proposals
Sen. Elizabeth Warren was in many ways the match that lit the current child care moment. Before the world had...
As part of their effort to target early childhood from ages zero to eight, BDCI-Colorado President Jalen Taylor is working to expand their reach across the Rocky Mountain state – with a special focus on mental health and wellness.
Just a few weeks after Oregon’s Department of Early Learning and Care broke off from the state’s Department of Education...
I still have flashbacks to the time my elder child’s kindergarten teacher left me alone with the class. Opening Cloudy...
“Five- and six-year-old children are inheritors of poverty’s curse and not its creators.” –President Lyndon B. Johnson, May 1965 In...
