At its three flagship locations in Chicago and around the city, the Carole Robertson Center for Learning supports the education...
Rebecca Rolland’s The Art of Talking with Children: The Simple Keys to Nurturing Kindness, Creativity, and Confidence in Kids explores...
Early Learning Nation magazine recently interviewed Michelle Kang, CEO of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC),...
If you’ve been following my work at all, you know I bristle at many “incremental” solutions to child care challenges.
The federal Child and Adult Care Food Program works. One of 15 US Department of Agriculture programs aimed at reducing...
Claudia Goldin, recent Nobel Prize winner and the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University, is a trailblazer who...
Book Review: New Book on Preschool Segregation Raises Under-Examined Questions
False Starts: The Segregated Lives of Preschoolers
This week brings the release of an important new book on early care and education. False Starts: The Segregated Lives...
While we’re taking Early Learning Nation Studio on the road less often during the pandemic, we’re offering recaps—Top Takeaways—from important...
How do you ensure that Eight Essential Outcomes for Black Child Development get to communities, schools, educators, leaders, researchers, policymakers and parents anywhere—or everywhere—in the U.S.? Build a National Village Network, explains NBCDI’s Director of Community Engagement.
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.
BCDI-Atlanta recently released its State of the Black Child Report Card for Georgia, which identified several paths for immediate improvement, from supporting positive discipline to end suspensions and expulsions, to supporting the social-emotional development and mental health of Black children. As President, Dr. Bisa Batten Lewis explains, it’s all with the goal to address the group’s three key focus areas: Early care and education, literacy and family engagement.
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.”
