There are more than 19,000 cities and towns and more than 13,000 school districts in the United States, and it’s...
As part of New America’s Better Life Lab, Brigid Schulte helped drive a landmark report that exposed what’s really happening in America’s child care system – namely, it’s not a system. Instead, “it's a patchwork, it's broken, and it's not working well for anyone.” Schulte calls for us to “begin thinking about early care and education the same way we do about K-12.”
Vermont Makes Child Care History with a Bipartisan Veto Override
Success Credited to a Decade of Advocacy, Lobbying Efforts, Coalition Building
On Tuesday, June 20, Vermont’s state legislature met in a special legislative session to consider a bipartisan veto override of...
Early on in the recently released documentary Through The Night, Deloris “Nunu” Hogan circles up the group of children under...
Dr. Anita Fleming-Rife was born and educated in Iowa, “a product of Des Moines Public Schools back when Iowa was number one in the country in terms of education.” Now, as BCDI-Iowa Village President, she has returned home to work with educators, parents and more to build childhood learning in alignment with Iowa’s traditional place of educational excellence.
“The earlier we create an early childhood infrastructure for children and families, the better the guarantee we’ll have for a world-class city. I want that for Milwaukee, and for every child born and raised here.”
Those of us who watched too much TV in the 1970s probably remember commercials extolling long-distance phone calls as The...
History Lessons Matter, Even in Preschool
Stillinger: Nothing is as compelling to a child as another child’s story, so my students learn about young people who helped create change.
When people hear that I work in a preschool, they can easily picture me pretending to drink tea, pinky up...
A book intended as a catalyst for change, a call to action and marching papers for a national grassroots movement of those committed to addressing the racial, gender and economic injustices endemic to the ECE field.
Children 2, 3 and 4 years old—especially boys and Black children—are being kicked out of their schools at “staggering rates,” she writes—more than three times that of K–12 school children.
A universal child care plan rolled out by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, one of the roughly two dozen...
The East Kentucky Dream Center empowers families stuck in the cycle of poverty. But what does that look like? “We...
