For a community looking to address various social challenges, Vallejo, CA is starting with early childhood learning. As City Councilmember Pippin Dew says, programs such as the new First 5 Center not only help set children for future education success, but also helps families be the most productive they can be.
A field trip inside the mind—it may sound like a psychedelic rock song, but that’s the big idea behind AlegreMENTE...
Child care has traditionally been a politically quiet sector. I don’t mean there hasn’t been resolute advocacy, but that has largely (though certainly not entirely) happened behind the scenes -- at least in the U.S. there isn’t a long history of major public actions such as protests and strikes.
“Clarissa’s Battle” and the Campaign for Child Care Subsidies
Talking to the director and the title subject of an important new documentary
“Clarissa’s Battle” tells the story of a 10-year campaign for a tax increase to subsidize child care in Alameda County,...
Developed in the 1990s, Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) aim to increase the availability of high-quality early education programs,...
An unfortunate fact about the health care and child development information physicians try to cover during well-child checkups is that...
The Zaentz Early Education Initiative at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) emphasizes research that drives policy and practice,...
Sharing the Findings from Better Life Lab: Improving Child Care Assistance and Investment
Part 4 of a 5-Part Series
Our country is in a child care crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic, which has shown how difficult it is for...
5 Top Takeaways from the Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center’s Summit
New State Policy Roadmap Published
Last month, the Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center (PN-3) at Vanderbilt University hosted the 2022 Research to Policy Summit to mark the publication of its annual State Policy Roadmap.
The laws of supply and demand have never quite applied to child care, and no state exemplifies this conundrum as...
What do you do when a preschooler throws a desk? For Carol Barton, project director of Early Childhood Education in...
This is the way Liz Ogbu describes herself as a child: “I was the weird one in my family who drew.” But she didn’t become an artist.