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“Gold Standard” Study Finds High-Quality Care Is Important in Infancy

Study Finds the Benefits Last Well Into Elementary School

Bryce Covert·August 14, 2023·5 min read

By now the benefits of high-quality preschool are widely accepted. But there are still open questions about its impact: Is...

“I Can’t Compete”: Child Care Providers are Losing Staff to McDonald’s and Target

Bryce Covert·August 30, 2022·9 min read

Khulood Jamil never shut the doors of her home child care in California’s Bay Area in the early days of...

“A Loving Approach”: Q & A with the Children’s Bureau’s Aysha E. Schomburg

Mark Swartz·August 22, 2023·5 min read

Early Learning Nation spoke to Aysha E. Schomburg, J.D, leader of the Children’s Bureau (part of the Administration for Children...

“A Sense of Urgency Like Never Before”: Dismantling Racist Systems with Leah Austin

Mark Swartz·April 18, 2023·6 min read

Leah Austin, Ed.D., president & CEO of the National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI) spoke with Early Learning Nation magazine...

“Children Learn What They Live”: Building Empathy in Marin County

Mark Swartz·March 2, 2023·4 min read

What do you do when a preschooler throws a desk? For Carol Barton, project director of Early Childhood Education in...

“Clarissa’s Battle” and the Campaign for Child Care Subsidies

Talking to the director and the title subject of an important new documentary

Mark Swartz·May 24, 2022·4 min read

“Clarissa’s Battle” tells the story of a 10-year campaign for a tax increase to subsidize child care in Alameda County,...

“Dolly Is the Book Lady”: The Imagination Library’s Journey in Three States

Mark Swartz·October 3, 2023·4 min read

Dolly Parton sticks a lot of books in the mail. To be clear, the music legend, business executive and philanthropist...

“Empathy in All Its Aspects”

First Book's Paula Willey on Age-Appropriate Books to Build Kindness and Compassion

Mark Swartz and Paula Willey·October 25, 2023·9 min read

Paula Willey is a librarian’s librarian. Co-author of The Passive Programming Playbook: 101 Ways to Get Library Customers off the...

“How Is My Baby Doing, and How Am I Doing as a Parent?”: Part II of Interview with Brazelton Touchpoints Center’s Joshua Sparrow

Mark Swartz·November 24, 2021·4 min read

In Part I of this interview, Dr. Joshua Sparrow, executive director of the Brazelton Touchpoints Center, delves into the legacy...

“Knowledge Accumulates”: The History of the American Rescue Plan’s Child Provisions and What it Means for Cutting Child Poverty

Mark Swartz·March 26, 2021·4 min read

The American Rescue Plan signed by President Joe Biden on March 12 contains a number of potentially game-changing policies for...