Listening to Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek talk about education can feel like the first time you visit one of those frozen yogurt places where you add your own toppings. You start with a little bit of this and a little bit of that, but it’s all so good, you don’t know quite where to stop.
Did April showers bring you May flowers? There’s certainly a ton of work springing to life around early learning communities,...
In a 2016 Atlantic feature, Alana Semuels calls Fairfield County, Conn., the epicenter of American inequality. “Bridgeport,” she writes, “an...
Most U.S. schoolchildren know more about the Amazon rain forest than the ground beneath their feet and more about penguins...
The Pandemic Disrupted Gender Equity at Home. Will It Last?
New Data Explored at Better Life Lab at New America Symposium
Before the pandemic began in March 2020, Melissa and Richard Head would have said they evenly split the child care...
Two decades of neuroscience research have irrefutably proven that the most profound period in a child’s life is the time...
Just as Early Learning Nation showcases the ways families, researchers and grassroots nonprofits and organizations are building an early learning...
Homelessness Rates Spike for Families, Putting Even Young Children at Risk
Housing instability can affect children’s cognitive and emotional development and ultimately their academic success.
In early February, Tateona Williams suffered the unthinkable. Around 1 a.m. on a freezing cold Monday, she parked her van...
If Tiffany Gale got eight full hours of sleep a night, she’d never be able to get everything done. In...
In the midst of my search for a new child care provider for my one-year-old, I’ve braced myself for the...
This magazine uses the word crisis a lot. We’ve reported again and again that early childhood education in America is...
Generation Hope: One Desperate Teen’s Story Grows into Hope for Hundreds
Collecting Data, Providing Services, Transforming Lives of Student Parents
Two little pink lines. Sometimes that’s all it takes to derail a person’s life and torpedo any plans they might...














