Elliot’s Provocations unpacks current events in the early learning world and explores how we can chart a path to a...
A lead crisis plaguing Newark, N.J., is the latest large-scale threat posed by lead in water, a health hazard that’s...
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5 Takeaways from Jack Shonkoff’s EdRedesign Keynote
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On May 19, Dr. Jack P. Shonkoff delivered the Education Redesign Lab (EdRedesign) spring keynote address via YouTube. Among his many distinctions, Dr. Shonkoff—Director of Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child and Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard Graduate School of Education—was awarded the 2019 LEGO Prize for revolutionizing the field of early child development. Here are our notes from his remarks.
What It Takes to Nurture “Little Leaders”: Reflections from a Family Care Provider in the Bronx
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Loving ice cream doesn’t qualify you to open an ice cream parlor. The same goes for child care. Entrepreneurs who...
Q&A: Why the U.S. Is ‘Catastrophically Wrong’ to Separate Early Child Care from Education
In new book, child development expert Dan Wuori dismantles notion of early child care as a form of 'industrialized' babysitting.
In Dan Wuori’s upcoming book he argues that America’s early childhood policy has been premised on a harmful myth: “This...
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The Consequences of Forced Separation
When Traumatized Children Return to Traumatized Parents
Science tells us that an outpouring of stress hormones shapes the way the brain develops. Trauma affects behavior, brain development, even the immune system. It’s devastating for all, but for newborns and youngest children, the impact can be profound.
When we hear the word, “lullaby,” most of us imagine something like the dictionary definition of “a gentle, quiet song that lulls a child to sleep,” a cradle song to soothe a baby’s way to the Land of Nod. For the past 12 years, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute has been refining that definition with its Lullaby Project.
When the Washington Post published an article headlined “Books of the Ages — The best books to read at every...
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Mount Sinai Pilot Project: Creating a Culture Shift in Pediatric Health Care
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Over a few nights in 2019, a radical change took place at New York’s renowned Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital....
