Anyone who has been following the intersection of COVID-19 and child care knows that the U.S. is not doing well....
Dear Readers, We’re excited to announce that Early Learning Nation is relaunching and expanding as zero2eight, a new editorial vertical...
Community Health Workers Can Play a Key Role in Keeping Families Healthy
A report calls for the integration of community health workers into early childhood well-child care.
The well-child visit is standard pediatric practice for the first three years of life. Every few months, parents or caregivers...
When we hear the word, “lullaby,” most of us imagine something like the dictionary definition of “a gentle, quiet song that lulls a child to sleep,” a cradle song to soothe a baby’s way to the Land of Nod. For the past 12 years, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute has been refining that definition with its Lullaby Project.
In a recent study from Ohio State, white kindergarten children were nearly three times as likely as children of other...
Looking at contemporary Western society, the conclusion that we’re going to Hell in a handbasket might not seem farfetched. An...
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.
We are all more than our most challenging moments. As Ellen Galinsky, Bezos Family Foundation Chief Science Officer and Founder/Executive Director of Mind in the Making, explains, a focus on “trauma informed care” in early learning is shifting to “asset informed care.” And that process starts with looking at children in terms of their strengths.
According to New America’s recent “Lost in the Labyrinth” report, “Families with the youngest children stand to gain the most...
A visitor looking for Eastside Baby Corner (EBC) might be excused for thinking they were searching for a modest storefront...
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
As I travel internationally, I have been thinking a lot about how we position child care in the United States. I am increasingly concerned by an ascendant school of thought that emphasizes a role for employer-sponsored child care benefits.
