This is the way Liz Ogbu describes herself as a child: “I was the weird one in my family who drew.” But she didn’t become an artist.
Many people see the word “doula” and think, “Ah, yes. A midwife.” Though the two words describe important roles in...
Hospitality. Housing. Hope: Three resources every person dealing with homelessness needs—and they’re in especially short supply for women. For women...
Leah Austin, Ed.D., president & CEO of the National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI) spoke with Early Learning Nation magazine...
Just as Early Learning Nation showcases the ways families, researchers and grassroots nonprofits and organizations are building an early learning...
Book Review: Getting Me Cheap: How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty
Unfiltered Portraits of Underpaid Mothers
Getting Me Cheap presents the stories and struggles of working women and mothers relegated to jobs on the labor market's lowest rungs.
When Venicia Gray walked into her OB-GYN’s office in 2019, she asked a direct question: “What are my chances of...
5 Top Takeaways from the Webinar on Mixed Delivery Hosted by the Learning Policy Institute and the National Institute for Early Education Research
Multiple Paths to Quality
On April 19, the Learning Policy Institute (LPI) and the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) cohosted a webinar...
If you’ve been following my work for the past year, you know I am deeply concerned about how unprepared our child- and family-serving systems are for this new reality. I’m not the only one. A new report puts a fine point on why early care & education stakeholders need to have a climate strategy, and why public officials need to have ECE in their climate strategy: a staggering number of child care programs are under threat.
As we logged onto this webinar, we were greeted by the sights and sounds of Frank Waln’s “My Stone.” All...
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...
Early Learning Nation magazine asked some of our favorite people, What’s one thing our readers can do to make the...
