What do you get when you put a young child and a young adult together in a classroom? Magic, says Crystal Rountree, CEO of Jumpstart.
As mental-health professionals, pediatricians, parents and educators weigh how to address what is widely viewed as a mental health emergency...
A recent column by the popular center-left writer Matt Yglesias reinforced for me yet again why we need a different foundation for our care arguments.
Early Education Is the Most Segregated Learning Space
How Researchers Casey Stockstill and Halley Potter Hope to Change That
It’s been 70 years since the Supreme Court’s pivotal Brown vs. Board of Education ruling that racially segregated schools are...
Pumping the Brakes on Private Equity’s Run on Child Care
New Report by the National Women’s Law Center and Open Markets Institute
Rebecca Slaughter has a simple explanation for how private equity affects our economy: “When markets are competitively healthy, they have...
In the midst of my search for a new child care provider for my one-year-old, I’ve braced myself for the...
While Helen Russell’s clever, well-researched exploration of the parenting culture of Denmark and other Nordic countries might not fully map onto the experience of most families in the U.S. or U.K. (Russell’s original home), it offers refreshing insights that can help parents relax a bit, give themselves heaps of grace and have much more fun raising their family.
First, the good news. As it turns out, the so-called summer slide might not be the threat to our nation’s...
New Report: How Supercharging the Child Tax Credit Benefited Young Children, and What Comes Next
An Interview with Olivia Golden
The federal Child Tax Credit (CTC) expanded in 2021 to address hardships families were facing during the pandemic. The size...
In upstate New York, like many other parts of the country, the supply of child care has failed to keep...
Advocacy shifts into high gear during campaign season. While child care and early education will never have the lobbying firepower of industries like Big Pharma and utilities, the sector boasts a number of dynamic nonprofits dedicated to engaging candidates and voters on issues that matter for families with young children.
The United Nations has declared June 11 to be the first annual International Day of Play, calling it “a unifying...
