Home visiting programs are one of the most effective ways of providing valuable services to families with young children. The...
Decades before the Covid pandemic, Ai-jen Poo realized that domestic workers who care for children and the elderly had few...
Listening to Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek talk about education can feel like the first time you visit one of those frozen yogurt places where you add your own toppings. You start with a little bit of this and a little bit of that, but it’s all so good, you don’t know quite where to stop.
In a 2016 Atlantic feature, Alana Semuels calls Fairfield County, Conn., the epicenter of American inequality. “Bridgeport,” she writes, “an...
There’s a truism among child-mindful urban planners: Children are an indicator species for cities. “Just as the presence of salmon...
In 2016, when Philadelphia became the first big U.S. city to tax sugary beverages, many expected other others to follow....
In September 2018, Tara Skiles sent an email to Judy Jablon at Leading for Children (LFC) that read: “We are...
Educational pioneer Maria Montessori once said, “Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.”...
Economists are famously bad at predicting the future. (There’s even an old joke: Why did God create economists? To make weather forecasters look good.) Nevertheless, thinking like an economist can help prepare us for what lies ahead for our children.
When The New York Times declared, “America’s Mothers Are in Crisis” in February, it was hardly news to America’s mothers....
