Some companies are responding to the child care crisis in a somewhat predictable way: they’re looking after their own. Stories have been emerging about a proliferation of on-site child care programs; an NPR article a few weeks ago noted that
Within a notoriously underpaid workforce, Louisiana’s child care teachers receive some of the lowest wages—making on average $9.77 an hour...
Music, emotion and language are all tied up together. Neuroscientist Alistair Jennings has written that the brain “processes musical syntax...
Nobody studies early childhood for purely academic reasons; researchers’ studies hope to improve the lives of real kids. And the...
Just as Early Learning Nation showcases the ways families, researchers and grassroots nonprofits and organizations are building an early learning...
If you were to ask a group of Latinx dads if they speak in any special way to their babies,...
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
Does putting young children in a preschool setting harm them? Opponents of publicly funded child care and early education have...
Elliot’s Provocations unpacks current events in the early learning world and explores how we can chart a path to a...
Babies and small children might not immediately come to mind when we think about people dealing with chronic stress. But...
As a professor, nurse, mom and policymaker, access to efficient, effective and equitable early childhood education is and has been an ongoing top priority of mine.
New York City’s Robin Hood Foundation is known for applying rigorous metrics to evaluate the poverty-fighting impact of its grants,...
