NBCDI President Dr. Leah Austin discusses how the 52-year-old national organization that focuses on the healthy child development of Black children takes its mission and message to all U.S. communities, working with key local leaders, educators and parents to improve education, as well as offering key lessons from the NBCDI’s Early Years Climate Action Task Force.
Inspiring Educators with No Borders Between Play and Learning at the Center for Playful Inquiry
Part 6 in “Seasons of Play” Series
If you’ve been following along, you’ll have found two common threads running through our Seasons of Play series: (1) play...
How do you build leadership in early learning? According to Maurice Sykes, Executive Director of the Early Childhood Leadership Institute, it goes beyond the usual skills and benefits from an eye towards equity and social justice: “[making] sure that children, regardless of zip code or surname or gender, have access to high quality programs.”
In Spring 2022, when New York City and its largest poverty-fighting philanthropy launched the Child Care Quality and Innovation Initiative,...
Good for All Kids, Pre-K Programs Are Especially Beneficial for English Learners
Our divisive politics around immigration lag behind the diverse reality of our schools — and for English learners, early ed is a key to success.
For all the campaign arguments about immigration and the United States border, you’d think that we were embarking upon a...
The possibilities are unlimited for the children of single mothers. Just ask President Barack Obama. Vice President Kamala Harris. Ford Foundation president Darren Walker. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Entrepreneur and Pittsburgh Steelers owner Thomas Tull. Comedians like Jon Stewart and Eddie Murphy, performers like Jay-Z and Mariah Carey, athletes like LeBron James, Hope Solo and Alex Rodriguez.
As I travel internationally, I have been thinking a lot about how we position child care in the United States. I am increasingly concerned by an ascendant school of thought that emphasizes a role for employer-sponsored child care benefits.
Robin Hood FUELs the Future for Children
Shares Brain Science, Strategically Partners to Create an Early Learning Metropolis
The greatest city in the world. More than 100,000 children 0-3 growing up in poverty. Two facts that are painful to reconcile.
This is a job for Robin Hood. Unafraid to challenge the seemingly intractable, the grant maker and all-around poverty fighter combines rigorous data and strategic partnerships with powerhouse fundraising.
Here’s the story behind the $50 million, five-year Fund for Early Learning (FUEL) .
As a preschooler, Victoria Ankrah was taught in a Paterson, N.J., Head Start program where her mother was a member...
In each year from 2016 through 2018, more than 2 million parents of children age 5 and younger suffered “job...
Community Health Workers Can Play a Key Role in Keeping Families Healthy
A report calls for the integration of community health workers into early childhood well-child care.
The well-child visit is standard pediatric practice for the first three years of life. Every few months, parents or caregivers...
It’s no surprise that the entire Early Learning Nation magazine team is filled with readers (and authors, too): voracious, life-long...
