I dislike the economic case for child care. I’m not talking about my take on the role of employers, but the near-constant way lawmakers and advocates of both parties rest their case for supporting child care on its function as an economic driver.
Neurons and Neighborhoods in the Nation’s Capital
How a D.C. Women’s Shelter Is Becoming a Leader in Multigenerational Therapy
Early in the pandemic, Dr. Alicia Lieberman, director of the Child Trauma Research Program at the University of California, San...
The quest for reliable funding of children’s programs often runs through local government, and First Steps Kent of Kent County,...
5 Top Takeaways: Hunt Institute and Alliance for Early Success Explore Big Wins for Little Kids 2022
2022 produced an impressive number of big wins, which the Hunt Institute and Alliance for Early Success explored December 5 in this year’s edition of the Big Wins for Little Kids webinar.
Hope, wrote Emily Dickinson, is the thing with feathers. To which we would add glitter, glue, googly eyes and the...
The early child care education workforce was strained even before the pandemic. Poor pay and benefits not only hurt recruitment...
Happy New Year! As 2023 kicks off, I wanted to highlight five early learning trends to be watching this year.
Nearly 24 million U.S. children live in single-parent families, and they are far more likely to experience food and housing insecurity, and other hazards of poverty.
The Power of First 10 Partnerships
Part I of a two-part interview with David Jacobson
The First 10 initiative of the Education Development Center (EDC) supports a network that will soon include more than 60...
In the 1970s, New York Times delivery trucks didn’t go to neighborhoods like Majora Carter’s.
Some companies are responding to the child care crisis in a somewhat predictable way: they’re looking after their own. Stories have been emerging about a proliferation of on-site child care programs; an NPR article a few weeks ago noted that
Just as Early Learning Nation showcases the ways families, researchers and grassroots nonprofits and organizations are building an early learning...
