Monitoring the patchwork of responses to COVID-19 across 50 states can be overwhelming. For example, in Washington state, a slowdown...
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This magazine uses the word crisis a lot. We’ve reported again and again that early childhood education in America is...
Jessica Meir’s Five Rules for Being a Good Earthling
One Half of the World’s First All-Female Space Walking Duo Returns to Solid Ground
During her 205 days on the International Space Station, astronaut Jessica Meir had a little green friend. It wasn’t a Martian, it was mizuna lettuce that she tended as part of an experiment. “There was definitely a psychological component of having something green we could take care of,” she says. “We also got to eat it.”
“I’m a reader!” These are magic words for Alvin Irby, a former teacher and the founder and executive director of...
It’s a cruel irony of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic: the youngest children, whose brains depend on education for healthy brain...
Generation Hope: One Desperate Teen’s Story Grows into Hope for Hundreds
Collecting Data, Providing Services, Transforming Lives of Student Parents
Two little pink lines. Sometimes that’s all it takes to derail a person’s life and torpedo any plans they might...
Faisa Farole is the first Black midwife to own and operate a freestanding birth center in the state of Washington....
In a 2016 Atlantic feature, Alana Semuels calls Fairfield County, Conn., the epicenter of American inequality. “Bridgeport,” she writes, “an...
As Pandemic Funding Ends, New Survey Shows Parents Facing Host of Child Care Challenges
Families struggling with rising child care prices, unexpected closures and scarcity of providers.
Parents across the nation are struggling to access affordable and reliable child care almost five years after the start of...
Happy Spring! Your spring fever is kicking in, you’ve got a ton on your plate and pollen is already making...
Could New York Become the First Major City to Offer Universal Child Care?
Several mayoral candidates and an organized advocacy campaign are pushing to expand free child care access to children as young as 6 weeks old.
New York City could well become the first major city in the country to enact a universal child care program,...
Julie Leff can pinpoint the moment when she knew Roger Brooks was the right person to lead Facing History and...
