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.
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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.
Home-based child care is the most prevalent form of child care in the United States and particularly for infants and...
Flipping the Script on Universal Child Care
Child care is an essential need for families, not a handout.
Consider two neighboring towns, Potato and Potahto. Both have collected $1,000 in taxes and their goal is to ensure that...
As we logged onto this webinar, we were greeted by the sights and sounds of Frank Waln’s “My Stone.” All...
Not everyone who comes to America is pursuing the American Dream. Some are in flight from life-threatening crises. Layered on...
Isis Mabel made just $4.50 an hour caring for three children when she arrived in Massachusetts from Mexico as an...
Maria Montessori’s Influence on Early Education
Part 1 of a 3-Part Series
Part I: From Italy to the World Maria Montessori (1870-1952) might not be quite as famous as her near contemporaries...
Shantel Meek, Ph.D., founding executive director of the Children’s Equity Project at Arizona State University, learned an important lesson during...
Recently, the anthropologist James Peacock III told me about the night in 1964 when his newborn daughter Louly had swallowed...
In the past few decades, public libraries have undergone a quiet transformation from sleepy repositories of books to full-fledged community...
Cokis is an immigrant mom and grandmother in Arizona. Her struggles with the trauma that she and one of her...
