This magazine uses the word crisis a lot. We’ve reported again and again that early childhood education in America is...
In each year from 2016 through 2018, more than 2 million parents of children age 5 and younger suffered “job...
In 2016, when Philadelphia became the first big U.S. city to tax sugary beverages, many expected other others to follow....
Gas, Groceries, Homeownership Opportunities and Kids’ Extracurriculars
What D.C.’s Early Childhood Educators Stand to Lose with the D.C. Pay Equity Fund Salary Cuts
Briyana Holloway remembers the shock when she saw her new paycheck. It was January 2024, and the Early Childhood Pay...
More than 700 Child Care Providers Shut Their Doors to Demand Better Pay
“Without Child Care, There’s No Workforce”
Lorretta Johnson has been running a child care out of her home in Austin, Texas since 1999, caring mostly for...
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
All Our Kin is an innovative national nonprofit leading the effort to transform the U.S. child care system. Launched 24...
States are taking early childhood education seriously. A recent report from the Alliance for Early Success documents the progress. (See...
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...
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...
As a professor, nurse, mom and policymaker, access to efficient, effective and equitable early childhood education is and has been an ongoing top priority of mine.
Martha’s Vineyard, an island south of Cape Cod, Mass., has long been known as a resort community for prosperous Black families as well as a gathering place for Democratic Party leaders and supporters. There’s more to the picture, however, than summertime wealth and power. A recent report based on the American Communities Survey described “a continuing housing crisis and some of the deeply ingrained inequality affecting the rest of the country.”
