Elliot’s Provocations unpacks current events in the early learning world and explores how we can chart a path to a...
Hiding in the basement from my wife and kids, I tuned into a recent webinar on screen time, part of...
It’s no surprise that the entire Early Learning Nation magazine team is filled with readers (and authors, too): voracious, life-long...
New Mexico, a state long used to landing at the bottom of national rankings for children’s well-being, just made a...
Michigan Moves Closer to Universal Pre-K — But It’s Not Quite So Universal Yet
More preschool funding faces opposition, but families struggle to pay thousands for private preschool.
Michelle Gurgul has a good job as a dental hygienist, but the expense of private preschool for her daughter near...
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
This July, American parents started experiencing something brand new. After Democrats passed an expansion of the Child Tax Credit in...
Elliot’s Provocations: Bring on School-Aged Care
Can We Create a Seamless Melding of Early Child Care and School-Aged Care?
Linking early child care and school-aged care is a good idea both on the merits and the politics. I’m hardly the first one to point this out, but I want to highlight the opportunity here as we head into summer break and the acute headache it causes for many families.
Most Read Stories of 2024: Our 10 Top Stories About Child Care and Early Learning
The themes that resonated include the experiences of working families, the mental health of young children, and the cost (and funding) of child care.
As we enter 2025, we’re taking a moment to reflect on the stories we published over the past year that...
“Literacy learning for young children is not bound in time and space,” proclaims Susan Neuman’s latest paper for Reading Research...
Every year, air pollution-related causes kill more than half a million children before their fifth birthdays, and an even greater number are afflicted by lasting damage to their developing brains and lungs.
Recently, an unprecedented amount of attention has coalesced around the U.S. child care market. In the wake of Covid-19—with thousands...
