ParentCorps Builds Relationships from the Ground Up
“You’re the Expert on Your Child”
If hearts and minds don’t change, neither will the social structures holding us back. But what’s the best way to...
How can communities know the progress they’re making – or areas to grow – in becoming a true center for early learning? In Part Two of our conversation, Cailin O’Connor, Senior Associate at the Center for the Study of Social Policy, explains the metrics, inputs and outputs of the Digital Progress Rating Tool and the early childhood system performance assessment toolkit.
Decades before the Covid pandemic, Ai-jen Poo realized that domestic workers who care for children and the elderly had few...
With more than 1.5 million members, Moms Clean Air Force unleashes the power of mothers on behalf of Mother Nature....
HOAs are Creating Barriers for Home-Based Child Care Providers, Lawmakers Told
Proposed legislation would bar most homeowners associations in Nevada from prohibiting licensed home-based childcare operations within their communities.
This story was originally published at The Nevada Current Deetra Stewart provided home-based child care for more than two decades...
While we’re taking Early Learning Nation Studio on the road less often during the pandemic, we’re offering recaps—Top Takeaways—from important...
“Five- and six-year-old children are inheritors of poverty’s curse and not its creators.” –President Lyndon B. Johnson, May 1965 In...
Infants the World Over Can Spot a Lullaby—in Any Language
Researchers Are Hot on the Trail of Why
If someone were to ask what makes a lullaby a lullaby, you might stumble a bit trying to come up...
What if, as a counterpart to public school districts for children five and under, we had “early childhood districts” adapted...
Martha’s Vineyard, an island south of Cape Cod, Mass., has long been known as a resort community for prosperous Black families as well as a gathering place for Democratic Party leaders and supporters. There’s more to the picture, however, than summertime wealth and power. A recent report based on the American Communities Survey described “a continuing housing crisis and some of the deeply ingrained inequality affecting the rest of the country.”
A Day Trip to Philadelphia Shows What Playful Learning Is—and Isn’t
Part 1 of "Seasons of Play" Series
“Play is an activity enjoyed for its own sake,” writes Diane Ackerman in her 1999 book Deep Play. “It is...
As the debate rages over proposals to improve U.S. child care, several commentators— mostly self-described conservatives—have pointed to Quebec’s child...
