When the Pritzker Children’s Initiative (PCI) launched a first-of-its-kind Prenatal-to-Age Three State Grant Competition late last year, 42 of 45...
The Power of First 10 Partnerships
Part I of a two-part interview with David Jacobson
The First 10 initiative of the Education Development Center (EDC) supports a network that will soon include more than 60...
Just as Early Learning Nation showcases the ways families, researchers and grassroots nonprofits and organizations are building an early learning...
Build Back Better Helps, Not Hurts, Faith-Based Child Care
Critics are Overselling the Changes While Religious Programs Fight for Their Lives
While the investments in early care and education appear broadly safe, one unresolved design question concerns what should be required of child care programs operated by faith communities.
Just as Early Learning Nation showcases the ways families, researchers and grassroots nonprofits and organizations are building an early learning...
Although young children are more resilient to the health effects of Covid, the global pandemic hit them with stunning force....
Willie Lightfoot is a Rochester (NY) City Councilmember. He’s also a longtime barber. And it’s in both roles that he has made an impact on early learning. As Lightfoot explains, the time when a child waits for a haircut makes for an outstanding opportunity to read. It’s just one of the lessons one can take from Lightfoot’s chair, including his common reminder to be positive.
A recent column by the popular center-left writer Matt Yglesias reinforced for me yet again why we need a different foundation for our care arguments.
“People keep apologizing to me,” Tabatha Rosproy says with a nervous laugh. She knows what they mean, but she can’t...
Child care workers are the backbone of the economy and a smart new campaign from the National Women’s Law Center...
How the remarkable relationship between Dr. Darlene Clemens and Ellen Galinsky began -- and the early learning community that was created.
An unfortunate fact about the health care and child development information physicians try to cover during well-child checkups is that...
