When most people talk about designing an early childhood education program, they mean the curriculum, the funding, or the program. Not Dr. Sandra Duncan. When the Design Consultant for Early Childhood Classrooms and Adjunct Professor at Nova Southeastern University talks about designing, she means it literally.
Willie Lightfoot is a Rochester (NY) City Councilmember. He’s also a longtime barber. And it’s in both roles that he has made an impact on early learning. As Lightfoot explains, the time when a child waits for a haircut makes for an outstanding opportunity to read. It’s just one of the lessons one can take from Lightfoot’s chair, including his common reminder to be positive.
Kid Food: The Challenge of Feeding Children in a Fast-Food World
A Conversation with Author Bettina Elias Siegel
What does $2 billion dollars pay for? The entire city budget of Oakland, CA. Ownership of the Philadelphia 76ers. Or,...
While we see the tyranny of merit most active in K-12 and higher education, school readiness is the Trojan horse through which it has breached the world of early childhood.
Economists are famously bad at predicting the future. (There’s even an old joke: Why did God create economists? To make weather forecasters look good.) Nevertheless, thinking like an economist can help prepare us for what lies ahead for our children.
What do you do when the world is turned upside-down? Once you stop panicking, you listen. That’s the core value...
2021 was a momentous year for early childhood care & education. The field suffered blow after blow from COVID and then a knock-on staffing crisis; received nearly $50 billion in rescue funds to temporarily patch the gaping leaks; and is ending the year on the precipice of receiving enough public funds through the Build Back Better Act to finally become a stable and healthy sector.
Geography and Race, State by State, Can Determine the Fate Of Both Mother and Baby
CAP Report Outlines the Data
The U.S. has the highest maternal and infant mortality rates among any comparable developed countries. In 2017, it ranked 55th...
How Child Care in Oregon is Saving the Construction Trade
Statewide apprenticeship program with generous child care subsidies also trains and recruits workers
There has been a construction boom in Oregon. Demand in the trade continues to rise yet 90 percent of construction...
Weavers: Geniuses at Connecting & Building Community
David Brooks’s Search for Everyday Heroes
From where David Brooks stands, the State of the Union is a long, long way from sound. The author and...
Experts say that every dollar invested in care produces $9 in spending. Child care spending in particular both creates jobs...
My paternity leaves were some of the most cherished weeks of my life. While far too short, I have crystal-clear...
