How Can We Make This School Year the Most Playful in History?
Educators and Experts Weigh In
It’s “back to school” time, whether the children in your life are going back to an actual school or to...
North Carolina Has Lost More Than 5% of Licensed Child Care Programs Since the Pandemic Began
Closures of licensed child care programs have been outpacing the opening of new programs since at least June 2023
This article originally appeared at EdNC.org. Since February 2020, the number of licensed child care programs in North Carolina has...
On Thursday, June 18, Common Sense Media and the Commonwealth Club hosted a conversation titled “Parenting in Support of Black Lives: How to Build a Just Future for Kids (and How Media Can Help).”
Dr. Allison Briscoe-Smith, a clinician, consultant and trainer, moderated the conversation, with Julie Lythcott-Haims (How to Raise an Adult) and Ibram X. Kendi (How to Be an Antiracist) weighing in on a range of urgent issues for parents and, really, anyone concerned about the state of our union.
Here are five takeaways from the event, which is available for viewing.
5 Top Takeaways from the Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center’s Summit
New State Policy Roadmap Published
Last month, the Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center (PN-3) at Vanderbilt University hosted the 2022 Research to Policy Summit to mark the publication of its annual State Policy Roadmap.
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
Legislation that includes what an early childhood advocacy group says is an “historic investment in early childhood” has been signed...
An unfortunate fact about the health care and child development information physicians try to cover during well-child checkups is that...
It’s long been clear that children who grow up in poverty struggle later in their lives, experiencing everything from increased...
It’s a cruel irony of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic: the youngest children, whose brains depend on education for healthy brain...
Why was the Undisputed World Champion in the Super Featherweight Division at a conference on early childhood learning? Because at some point in life, we all need to step into the ring, and before any of us does, “it's important that every child knows what confidence is.”
When three in 10 candidates who sign up for your program don’t make it to the end, you know you...
If you’ve been following my work at all, you know I bristle at many “incremental” solutions to child care challenges.
