This may be one of the saddest facts you read in a while: One in three moms in the U.S....
In the past few decades, public libraries have undergone a quiet transformation from sleepy repositories of books to full-fledged community...
The “Child Care For Working Families Act”: Transition Fuel for Universal Child Care (3-Part Series, Part 1)
Series: Which Path Forward?: Analyzing the Flurry of Federal Child Care Proposals
When I declared on this site a few months back that “The Era of Child Care Incrementalism Is Over,” I had no idea how much April would prove the point. Not only is the White House gearing up to release the American Families Plan -- which will include, per the Washington Post, over $400 billion in early care & education funding -- but on Thursday, Sen. Patty Murray and Rep. Bobby Scott reintroduced a new iteration of the Child Care For Working Families Act (CCWFA).
Literacy is a top priority because we know that so much of our success in K-12 hinges on building better readers. In the past, we’ve had an environment of “too little, too late” when it comes to helping kids before they pass the third grade, which is recognized as a milestone for reading development.
Crying is Easy; Laughing is Hard
The Science and Wonder Behind a Baby’s Laugh
The game of peekaboo is a universal language—and there’s way more to it than you might imagine. You know the...
Home visiting programs are one of the most effective ways of providing valuable services to families with young children. The...
The Covid-19 pandemic has been a catastrophe that helped reveal some of the deepest fissures in the isolated nuclear family,...
We have a great public library in Takoma Park, Md., but ever since the first Little Free Libraries started popping...
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
When babies are learning to walk, they fall on average 17 times an hour. Given that frequency of falls, you...
Clear the Dance Floor: Baby Steps Happening Here
Recent Study Explores Factors that Influence Development of Walking Skill
Whoever decided to use baby steps as a metaphor for timid, tenuous beginnings had it all wrong. Baby steps are...
States are taking early childhood education seriously. A recent report from the Alliance for Early Success documents the progress. (See...
