Sometimes the barriers that keep a pregnant person from seeking prenatal care and all the benefits that accrue to mother...
Here are five principles Dutta-Gupta keeps in mind while leading an anti-poverty organization dedicated to ensuring that policies, programs and practices advance racial equity.
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...
Jessica Meir’s Five Rules for Being a Good Earthling
One Half of the World’s First All-Female Space Walking Duo Returns to Solid Ground
During her 205 days on the International Space Station, astronaut Jessica Meir had a little green friend. It wasn’t a Martian, it was mizuna lettuce that she tended as part of an experiment. “There was definitely a psychological component of having something green we could take care of,” she says. “We also got to eat it.”
The Research-Backed Way to Keep Kids Safe
Anti-abortion lawmakers say they want to protect children. Here’s how.
Soon after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced on Twitter that his state would...
What to Expect on Child Care from Trump’s Second Presidency
Elliot Haspel weighs in on what child care issues might be prioritized under the incoming Trump administration.
Anticipating what Donald Trump and his allies will do can be as much an exercise in scrying as deep analysis....
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
For Children and the Climate, the Future Is Now
Diving into the Data with the Early Years Climate Action Task Force
Human brains aren’t so good at planning ahead. Because we have a weird tendency to view our future selves as...
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.
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”...
When babies are learning to walk, they fall on average 17 times an hour. Given that frequency of falls, you...
Elliot’s Provocations unpacks current events in the early learning world and explores how we can chart a path to a...
