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Book Review: Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit

K.C. Compton·Aug 18, 2022·6 min read

Along with this history of metastatic industrial development, staggering pollution, relentless corruption and breathtakingly bad policy, Rector presents the other side of the coin: the fierce, courageous, dogged commitment of activists pushing back decade after decade, demanding cleaner air, better working conditions and water that wouldn’t poison their children.

Sharing the Findings from Better Life Lab: Improving Child Care Assistance and Investment

Part 4 of a 5-Part Series

Rebecca Gale·Aug 23, 2022·10 min read

Our country is in a child care crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic, which has shown how difficult it is for...

3 Top Takeaways from the Hunt Institute Webinar: Ideal Learning Environments

Mark Swartz·Aug 24, 2022·3 min read

On Tuesday, August 3, The Hunt Institute’s Dan Wuori and Trust for Learning’s Ellen Roche cohosted a webinar spotlighting the role of play in ideal learning environments. “Play is a vehicle for learning rather than a distraction from it,” Wuori stated.

Free Anti-Stress Kit Brings H.E.L.P. for Stressed-Out, Burned-Out Educators and Families

Mark Swartz·Aug 25, 2022·4 min read

I still have flashbacks to the time my elder child’s kindergarten teacher left me alone with the class. Opening Cloudy...

“I Can’t Compete”: Child Care Providers are Losing Staff to McDonald’s and Target

Bryce Covert·Aug 30, 2022·9 min read

Khulood Jamil never shut the doors of her home child care in California’s Bay Area in the early days of...

5 Top Takeaways from the Conversation: Strengthening Systems by Embedding Equity when Defining Quality

Mark Swartz·Aug 31, 2022·3 min read

On Tuesday, August 9, the Hunt Institute hosted the third and final conversation of the series on the early childhood...

How Congress Can Still Save Child Care

Elliot Haspel·Sep 1, 2022·4 min read

While there is much to celebrate about the Inflation Reduction Act, one group was left on the outside looking in: parents with young children.

Lynette Johnson’s Appetite for Food Justice

Mark Swartz·Sep 6, 2022·5 min read

The Community Cultivators series isn’t usually literally about cultivators, but with Lynette Johnson, executive director of The Society of St. Andrew, it just makes sense, especially during Hunger Action Month.

Susan Neuman’s Unbound Ambitions

Mark Swartz·Sep 7, 2022·3 min read

“Literacy learning for young children is not bound in time and space,” proclaims Susan Neuman’s latest paper for Reading Research...

Book Review: Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

K.C. Compton·Sep 8, 2022·6 min read

Essential Labor is both a memoir and a call to action. The caregiving crisis the US finds itself in now will outlast the pandemic and we must figure out ways to care for each other.

Maria Montessori’s Influence on Early Education

Part 1 of a 3-Part Series

Mark Swartz·Sep 15, 2022·6 min read

Part I: From Italy to the World Maria Montessori (1870-1952) might not be quite as famous as her near contemporaries...

Maria Montessori Myth Busting

Part 2 of a 3-Part Series

Mark Swartz·Sep 16, 2022·6 min read

The history of its proliferation and multi-pronged institutional dissemination has fostered a degree of confusion and myths about the founder’s intentions and how the method is practiced.

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