Elliot’s Provocations unpacks current events in the early learning world and explores how we can chart a path to a...
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While we see the tyranny of merit most active in K-12 and higher education, school readiness is the Trojan horse through which it has breached the world of early childhood.
Operating All the Levers
How Foundations Focused on Early Childhood Adapt and Re-Adapt to Changing Times
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
FUEL for Asylum Seekers and Their Children
Robin Hood Supports ASAP in Navigating the Complicated Process
Fleeing from death threats and domestic abuse in Honduras, Diana braved the journey to the United States with her three...
The child care market in the U.S. is broken. Despite rising prices for care, child care workers continue to make...
Vanderbilt University’s Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center (PN-3) just issued its annual State Policy Roadmap, exploring ways that the states (and...
When the Pritzker Children’s Initiative (PCI) launched a first-of-its-kind Prenatal-to-Age Three State Grant Competition late last year, 42 of 45...
A former editor of mine, while editing a policy-heavy story that needed more depth, lamented the demise of beat reporting....
Amid major union actions in the auto and entertainment industries and a historic looming strike by health care workers, I want to talk about the role of unions in child care.
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...
At the Blackfeet Early Childhood Center on the Blackfeet Nation about an hour south of the Canadian-U.S. border in Montana,...
Throughout most of human history and in most of the world, that paradigm of children playing outdoors as a part of childhood has been so integral as to be transparent. Not so in the U.S., where, according to the Child Mind Institute, the average American child spends four to seven minutes a day in unstructured play outdoors and more than seven hours a day in front of a screen. Washington State is changing that.
