While we see the tyranny of merit most active in K-12 and higher education, school readiness is the Trojan horse through which it has breached the world of early childhood.
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Operating All the Levers
How Foundations Focused on Early Childhood Adapt and Re-Adapt to Changing Times
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
Some States Have Avoided the Child Care Cliff
By Keeping Investment Going, About a Dozen States Have Kept Providers Open and Tuition Increases Down.
The federal American Rescue Plan Act, signed into law in early 2022, sent the child care sector the single largest...
A former editor of mine, while editing a policy-heavy story that needed more depth, lamented the demise of beat reporting....
Vanderbilt University’s Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center (PN-3) just issued its annual State Policy Roadmap, exploring ways that the states (and...
Pumping the Brakes on Private Equity’s Run on Child Care
New Report by the National Women’s Law Center and Open Markets Institute
Rebecca Slaughter has a simple explanation for how private equity affects our economy: “When markets are competitively healthy, they have...
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...
Amid major union actions in the auto and entertainment industries and a historic looming strike by health care workers, I want to talk about the role of unions in child care.
FUEL for Asylum Seekers and Their Children
Robin Hood Supports ASAP in Navigating the Complicated Process
Fleeing from death threats and domestic abuse in Honduras, Diana braved the journey to the United States with her three...
Home-based child care is the most prevalent form of child care in the United States and particularly for infants and...
Throughout most of human history and in most of the world, that paradigm of children playing outdoors as a part of childhood has been so integral as to be transparent. Not so in the U.S., where, according to the Child Mind Institute, the average American child spends four to seven minutes a day in unstructured play outdoors and more than seven hours a day in front of a screen. Washington State is changing that.
As we logged onto this webinar, we were greeted by the sights and sounds of Frank Waln’s “My Stone.” All...