When a baby peers into the face of an adult making the kind of goofy faces and noises most of...
Looking at contemporary Western society, the conclusion that we’re going to Hell in a handbasket might not seem farfetched. An...
It’s an ongoing global crisis: More than half of all refugee children – some 62 million – have no access to any form of education. From establishing schools in refugee camps to bringing Sesame Street to the Middle East, Sarah Smith, Sr. Director of Education at the International Rescue Committee, explains how the IRC addresses this humanitarian emergency every day. Filmed for Early Learning Nation’s Mobile Studio at the Society for Research in Child Development’s biennial meeting in Baltimore, MD, on March 22, 2019. #SRCD19
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
Last year, I wrote a column on five trends to look for in 2023 (which I think in retrospect were mostly apt, though the answer to ‘is bipartisanship possible’ seems to have been ‘outlook not so good’), and thought it would be worthwhile to do it again as the calendar gets ready to turn.
Every city-dweller has lived or witnessed some version of it: the mom on a bus struggling to fold a stroller...
Last fall, I wrote about upEND, a new project focused on addressing structural inequities in the country’s child welfare system....
The Children’s School in Pittsburgh: Where It’s Hard to Tell Play, Learning and Work Apart
Part 3 of "Seasons of Play" Series
The three-, four- and five-year-olds at the Children’s School at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh had a problem. They had...
Vaccine distribution is under way, but the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic carry on, and the fallout will continue in...
NBCDI President Dr. Leah Austin discusses how the 52-year-old national organization that focuses on the healthy child development of Black children takes its mission and message to all U.S. communities, working with key local leaders, educators and parents to improve education, as well as offering key lessons from the NBCDI’s Early Years Climate Action Task Force.
If you were to ask a group of Latinx dads if they speak in any special way to their babies,...
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.”
