Launched in London in 1844 and in Boston seven years later, the YMCA has the benefits and drawbacks of a...
Early Learning Nation columnist Elliot Haspel recently joined Capita as a Senior Fellow working on establishing a new philanthropic fund...
Within a notoriously underpaid workforce, Louisiana’s child care teachers receive some of the lowest wages—making on average $9.77 an hour...
Considering how often we say we care about children in the U.S., one might assume we’d be able to point...
‘There Goes My Son’s Help:’ Wave of Washington Head Starts Shut Down as Chaos Engulfs Federal Program
After months of layoffs, funding freezes and uncertainty, Trump's new budget proposal calls for eliminating the anti-poverty early childhood program.
Editor’s note: This story originally published on The 74 on April 18, 2025. After the story published, the Washington state...
BCDI-Seattle has been advocating for local children and their families around public policy, education and change for 50 years. The many tactics that President Kimberly Early and her colleagues have put into place include a parent hotline where families can get immediate help and guidance when navigating school issues, including the challenge of suspensions and expulsions of Black students.
Pediatrician Mona Hanna-Attisha’s Vision of “What We Can Do Next”
Ambitious Program Rx Kids Works to Eradicate Child Poverty in Flint, Mich., and Beyond
What if we let pediatricians run the world? Hear me out.
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.
For many of us, COVID-19 has completely changed how we work. Remote work might have its advantages for some, but when the kids are out of school and libraries and museums are closed, juggling two roles at once can be a challenge. What is a parent to do? As two developmental psychologists dedicated to understanding how children learn and play, these questions are filling our inbox.
The laws of supply and demand have never quite applied to child care, and no state exemplifies this conundrum as...
On Thursday, September 21, Trust for Learning and All Our Kin teamed up for a webinar titled “Educator-Led Movement Building: Lessons from Grassroots Leaders.”
Neurons and Neighborhoods in the Nation’s Capital
How a D.C. Women’s Shelter Is Becoming a Leader in Multigenerational Therapy
Early in the pandemic, Dr. Alicia Lieberman, director of the Child Trauma Research Program at the University of California, San...
