It’s hard enough to find child care in this country that is dependable and affordable when working a regular 9...
Philanthropic Partnership Aims to Expand Access to High-Quality Child Care
The Investing in America Child Care Partnership has raised $9.6 million to increase child care supply and improve the quality of care.
What do semiconductors have in common with child care? An AI query (made possible, of course, by a semiconductor or...
Welcome to the first edition of my new monthly column, “Elliot’s Provocations.” The goal of this column is to unpack...
“Our health system is failing women” are the unequivocal opening words of a report issued this past spring by Early...
When parents and kids tuned into “Thomas and Friends” this September, they discovered a new character: Bruno the Brake Car....
As a high school senior, Rotimi Kukoyi was accepted to all 15 colleges to which he applied. Now, as a UNC student, NBCDI Public Voices Fellow and Morehead-Cain Scholar, Kukoyi explains his mission to ensure that our “education system is properly equipped to provide students from all backgrounds with equitable opportunities in education.” Education, he notes, “should not be limited by a student's income, geographic area or their parents' education status.”
As a Reporting Fellow at New America’s Better Life Lab, Rebecca Gale has covered many aspects of America’s approach to child care. And one thing she knows: it’s complicated. From economics to use cases to the delivery system to funding and beyond, the U.S. has no one-size-fits-all approach. That patchwork leaves too many gaps, and that’s just one reason Gale argues that one way to improve America’s child care system is to improve how journalists report about it.
These Federal Policies Support Spanish-Language Child Care
How some states are building a multilingual child care workforce
A quarter of the children in the U.S. are Hispanic, according to the U.S. Census, yet 60 percent of Hispanic...
Mind Field: One Topic, Six Experts
#1: Play
Our new series Mind Field explores a single topic through the lens of six top experts from the field, in 200 words. This month's topic? Play.
Sometimes the barriers that keep a pregnant person from seeking prenatal care and all the benefits that accrue to mother...
Fred Rogers: Seeker of Truth
A Personal Remembrance
In October 2003—a mere eight months after my friend and colleague Fred Rogers died—Hyperion published a beautiful book of his...
It’s the not-so-secret secret: Higher rates of poverty occur for U.S. children in rural communities rather than urban ones. Yet delivering the benefits and tools of brain science to these areas is difficult in terms of cost, location, infrastructure. As Senior Specialist Lindsey Lockman Dougherty, Save the Children – in partnership with the Vroom Initiative – is doing something about that.
