It’s long been clear that children who grow up in poverty struggle later in their lives, experiencing everything from increased...
The scientific method isn’t just for scientists. Being curious about something, trying to figure it out, forming an idea about what’s going on and then testing it by trial and error are as natural to young children as breathing and learning to crawl.
Child Care Innovation: Centralizing Administrative Roles
Part 3 of a 5-part Series
Our country is in a child care crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic, which has shown how difficult it is for...
When Jack Shonkoff speaks, the early childhood field listens. Shonkoff, a pediatrician who leads Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child,...
Valley Settlement: Deep-Listening Tour Becomes Targeted Programming for Colorado Community
El Busesitos Bring Free, Mobile Preschool to Five Neighborhoods
When children hop aboard one of Valley Settlement’s El Busesito mobile preschools in Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley, they’re taking a...
Some States Have Avoided the Child Care Cliff
By Keeping Investment Going, About a Dozen States Have Kept Providers Open and Tuition Increases Down.
The federal American Rescue Plan Act, signed into law in early 2022, sent the child care sector the single largest...
Building community in a COVID-19 world is tough. But Brooklynites are nothing if not creative, industrious and hard-wired for...
Back in May, I had the privilege to present the closing keynote address at the Child Care Services Association annual conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. One point that several attendees told me resonated was when I showed that you can make many different arguments for child care, although advocates tend to focus primarily on only a few.
Why ‘Family, Friend and Neighbor Care’ Is an Essential Part of America’s Child Care System
FFN care is the most common type of non-parental child care in the United States today.
At 3 a.m., Reina Solano was startled awake by the ring of her phone. Her daughter, Ivonne Valadez Solano, was...
What We Can Learn From Red States’ Approaches to Child Care Challenges
Which policies have earned cross-partisan support and could be a good fit for North Carolina’s early care and learning landscape?
Policymakers across the political spectrum ran for office on child care issues in 2024. From the presidential campaigns to local...
In the Rush to COVID Recovery, Did We Forget About Our Youngest Learners?
Research finds the country’s youngest elementary school students aren’t catching back up to pre-pandemic levels in reading and math like older kids.
The country’s youngest elementary school students suffered steep academic setbacks in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic – just like...
“Gold Standard” Study Finds High-Quality Care Is Important in Infancy
Study Finds the Benefits Last Well Into Elementary School
By now the benefits of high-quality preschool are widely accepted. But there are still open questions about its impact: Is...
