Elliot’s Provocations unpacks current events in the early learning world and explores how we can chart a path to a...
First-Ever Study Provides High-Tech Window on Mother-Child Brain Synchrony
I-LABS Collaborates with Japanese and Taiwanese Brain Scientists
We’ve all had the experience of feeling “in synch” with another person, and mothers frequently describe feeling a “psychic connection”...
If caregiving is labor, if caregiving supports child development, if caregiving boosts the economy, if caregiving enables family flourishing, then how can we say only institutional programs belong within child care policy?
Not everyone who comes to America is pursuing the American Dream. Some are in flight from life-threatening crises. Layered on...
Lived Experience Sabra Bell remembers what it was like to be pregnant and low on funds. “Extra cash would have...
Who Supports Universal Pre-K?
A Look at 2020 Presidential Candidates
If the candidates running for president are a reliable indicator, support for universal pre-K—at least in concept—is popular. Of course, what federal action that support might bring is anyone’s guess.
As early learning science continues to deliver new insights around how children learn, the imperative next step becomes putting those learnings into the hands of people who need it most: Educators and parents. Senior Manager Erin Ramsey explains how Mind in the Making does that all across America.
How a Local Early Learning Collaborative Is Centering Belonging to Better Support Families With Young Children
Through empowering families and cultivating a sense of belonging, the Santa Ana Early Learning Initiative aims to boost outcomes for young children.
The Santa Ana Early Learning Initiative (SAELI), a collaborative supporting families with children ages 9 and under in Santa Ana,...
The request might not show up on any baby-shower wish list, but the gift practically every new parent wants most...
It’s the not-so-secret secret: Higher rates of poverty occur for U.S. children in rural communities rather than urban ones. Yet delivering the benefits and tools of brain science to these areas is difficult in terms of cost, location, infrastructure. As Senior Specialist Lindsey Lockman Dougherty, Save the Children – in partnership with the Vroom Initiative – is doing something about that.
In this two-part series, Elliot Haspel explores how one Oregon region mobilized to generate an innovative, next-generation plan for universal...
Praise is a funny thing. Words of acknowledgment can be the water and sunshine that help children grow into sturdy,...
