As President & CEO of the Smarter Learning Group, Ron Fairchild works directly with communities nationwide. He works with foundations, nonprofits and school districts across the country, all to expand educational opportunities for low-income kids and families. As Fairchild describes, getting to continual strong results takes work. But the ability to get there—and the responsibility to try to improve the next generation of outcomes—exists in every community.
High-quality early education leads to lifelong success for children and their communities, and it cannot happen without professionals cultivating and...
Investing in New Systems for Paying Educators What They Need and Deserve
New Grant Opportunity Deadline May 1, 2023
For U.S. children to realize their potential, the professionals who care and educate them need the training, respect and compensation...
A former editor of mine, while editing a policy-heavy story that needed more depth, lamented the demise of beat reporting....
Operating All the Levers
How Foundations Focused on Early Childhood Adapt and Re-Adapt to Changing Times
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
It’s the ghoulish season, when candy-crazed miniature unicorns, ninjas and mini-Hamiltons in tricorne hats roam suburban streets and the corridors...
Most of us instantly recognize the term “gray matter” as a synonym for the brain. Mention “white matter” and you...
Want to fight poverty? Robin Hood CEO Wes Moore – bestselling author, Army combat veteran, social entrepreneur – explains why improving education is an excellent place to start. Filmed for Early Learning Nation’s Mobile Studio at the Society for Research in Child Development’s biennial meeting in Baltimore, MD, on March 22, 2019. #SRCD19
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.
Parents with children enrolled in a universal pre-kindergarten program in New Haven, Connecticut, increased their earnings by an average of...
Recently, the anthropologist James Peacock III told me about the night in 1964 when his newborn daughter Louly had swallowed...
A recent column by the popular center-left writer Matt Yglesias reinforced for me yet again why we need a different foundation for our care arguments.
