Playful Learning Landscapes
Meeting Children Where They Are with What They Need
Plaza. Piazza. Town square. The names may differ region to region, but they describe similar spaces: a place where residents...
Listening to Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek talk about education can feel like the first time you visit one of those frozen yogurt places where you add your own toppings. You start with a little bit of this and a little bit of that, but it’s all so good, you don’t know quite where to stop.
The United States has finally decided to invest serious resources in our children. It just took a pandemic for it...
If caregiving is labor, if caregiving supports child development, if caregiving boosts the economy, if caregiving enables family flourishing, then how can we say only institutional programs belong within child care policy?
The idea of creating a national, universal child care system in this country got a turn in the spotlight during...
Does putting young children in a preschool setting harm them? Opponents of publicly funded child care and early education have...
An unfortunate fact about the health care and child development information physicians try to cover during well-child checkups is that...
Heat, Floods, Storms Limit Outdoor Play for Young Children, Surveys Show
Parents and child care providers report spending less time outside with children and suffering health and economic harm from extreme weather.
Physical activity is crucial for young children’s well-being. Outdoor play not only supports children’s physical health and their social and...
Anyone who has spent time around a toddler knows their signature cries of “No!” and “Mi-i-ine!”—often some of the first...
Dr. Alicia Lieberman was on a telemedicine call with a mother and her four-year-old son. The boy was continually and...
Poverty Wages, Staffing Crisis: New Federal Rule Looks to Sustain Head Start
New federal rule raises annual Head Start teacher salaries by $10,000 over time — but congressional funding is not guaranteed.
Andrea Muñeton has been a Head Start educator in California for 14 years. The work is important but greuling, she...
Education researchers know a lot about how most children learn to read. An Education Week piece by Sarah Schwartz and...
