Jennifer Trippett remembers the signs going up. In late 2021, fast food restaurants in the Bridgeport, West Virginia area announced...
Early Learning Nation columnist Elliot Haspel recently joined Capita as a Senior Fellow working on establishing a new philanthropic fund...
“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...
What It Takes to Nurture “Little Leaders”: Reflections from a Family Care Provider in the Bronx
With Training and Tech Assistance from All Our Kin
Loving ice cream doesn’t qualify you to open an ice cream parlor. The same goes for child care. Entrepreneurs who...
Dr. María E. Enchautegui had noticed a pattern. Puerto Rico had a very low labor force participation as compared to...
The Frameworks Institute is a nonprofit research institute that uses various social science disciplines in the service of economic justice,...
April Fournier is not just a Portland (ME) Councilmember, she’s also an early childhood support specialist within an outpatient pediatric clinic. After the child’s medical health visit, Fournier checks in with the parents to provide support on the “social determinants of health”: housing, food and other areas critical to a child’s development.
On Thursday, June 18, Common Sense Media and the Commonwealth Club hosted a conversation titled “Parenting in Support of Black Lives: How to Build a Just Future for Kids (and How Media Can Help).”
Dr. Allison Briscoe-Smith, a clinician, consultant and trainer, moderated the conversation, with Julie Lythcott-Haims (How to Raise an Adult) and Ibram X. Kendi (How to Be an Antiracist) weighing in on a range of urgent issues for parents and, really, anyone concerned about the state of our union.
Here are five takeaways from the event, which is available for viewing.
With experience from around the world, the President of BCDI-Carolinas compellingly synthesizes what she sees as the root challenge to early childhood learning: Mindset. Dr. Devonya Govan-Hunt outlines the five ways she and her colleagues have set out to tackle that obstacle, with special focus on excessive disciplinary actions in preschools.
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
This summer, the Hunt Institute hosted a panel discussion on the risks and opportunities that technology presents in the lives...
The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan signed into law by President Joe Biden has been lauded as a “force for...
