The Covid-19 pandemic ushered in unprecedented federal spending in the child care industry. When schools and child care programs shut...
In Part I of this interview, Dr. Joshua Sparrow, executive director of the Brazelton Touchpoints Center, delves into the legacy...
The Songs That Saved Mary Gauthier
A New Memoir, Plus Songwriting with Soldiers
“Music is very, very important for brain development,” Mary Gauthier states. “Especially when you sing together.”
The American Rescue Plan signed by President Joe Biden on March 12 contains a number of potentially game-changing policies for...
Has the 2024 Election Cycle Set the Stage for a National Consensus on Child Care?
Child care may be closer to an open window of opportunity than our divided politics would suggest possible.
A famous theory in political science asserts that windows for major policy reforms come along only every so often, and...
In January of 2020, The Hunt Institute—an education policy non-profit based in Durham, NC—released updates to its State Early Childhood...
U.S. child care is broken. Centers and other businesses are closing. Educators are finding work in other fields with better...
KinderCare Is Now Trading on the Stock Market. What Does That Mean for the Future of American Child Care?
KinderCare, which serves nearly 200,000 children across the country, recently hit the public market.
There was a major shift in the child care landscape in October, but you’d be forgiven for not noticing unless...
Philanthropic Partnership Aims to Expand Access to High-Quality Child Care
The Investing in America Child Care Partnership has raised $9.6 million to increase child care supply and improve the quality of care.
What do semiconductors have in common with child care? An AI query (made possible, of course, by a semiconductor or...
Autumn is officially here! In case you were overloaded with back-to-school-daze and all the other shifts that come with seasons...
Early Learning Nation magazine often focuses on child care and early education, which comprise about one-fifth of the $648 billion...
As American cities rebuild after the pandemic, much of the focus is on infrastructure. For Dr. Tonja Rucker, Director of Early Childhood Success at NLC’s Institute for Youth, Education and Families, that means not only physical needs like roads and bridges, but also the family structure, starting with its youngest members. As Dr. Rucker notes: “If the youngest residents are healthy and doing well, then the rest of things kind of fall into place and families get to be able to meet their needs.”
