My conversation with the Center for Playful Inquiry’s Susan Harris MacKay and Matt Karlsen ignited an intense curiosity about how...
Home-based child care is a fact of life in the U.S. On any given day, millions of children spend their...
Gas, Groceries, Homeownership Opportunities and Kids’ Extracurriculars
What D.C.’s Early Childhood Educators Stand to Lose with the D.C. Pay Equity Fund Salary Cuts
Briyana Holloway remembers the shock when she saw her new paycheck. It was January 2024, and the Early Childhood Pay...
Cast in America as a pay-to-play system with limited public funding, child care has long struggled with issues like difficult budgetary math, low educator pay, and highly variable quality. An unprecedented degree of investor activity is creating a cascade of risks for the sector, risks which threaten the path toward an inclusive child care system which works well for all children, parents, and early educators.
When it comes to caring for and educating children in the United States, Black grandmothers have never been on the...
The last time Early Learning Nation magazine sat down with researcher Dr. Chrishana Lloyd of Child Trends, she had just...
Support for this project was provided by Better Life Lab at New America...
Though national media outlets recently trumpeted the news that workers at a Tennessee Volkswagen plant had voted to join United...
Advocacy requires patience and persistence. And humility. Sometimes, all the organizing, letters to the editor and congressional testimony fall short....
In our talk of care, we frequently focus on questions of where, who and what. We rarely ask questions of why we care and what it means to care. Similarly, much of the modern care conversation centers around (very real!) struggles and scarcity. That’s why I was so pleased to read journalist Elissa Strauss’ new book, When You Care: The Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others.
Terri Simms has run her child care business, known as Playtime Nursery School, in Dayton, Ohio for over 27 years....
I’ve had the privilege of working with Elliot Haspel and reading his work on child care since I began reporting...
