On March 19, the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading (CGLR) hosted a discussion titled “Investing in the Future,” exploring the role...
Seedlings in the Garden: Childhood Food Sovereignty and the Push to Reclaim Indigenous Foodways
After their food systems were systematically destroyed, America’s Indian Tribes are teaching their children the importance of healthy diets through agricultural education
Every weekday morning, Nichole Efird greets her students with a hug and the promise of another adventure. With a curriculum...
What Inspires You to Work on Behalf of Young Children?
Celebrating the Week of the Young Child, April 6-12
Every week is the Week of the Young Child at Early Learning Nation magazine. The National Association for the Education...
How to Citizen is all about how to fix democracy, something that many Americans feel is deeply if not permanently broken. Early Learning Nation magazine interviewed Thurston, who also hosts America Outdoors on PBS, and gained insight into how he thinks about interpersonal and global issues alike.
Some States Have Avoided the Child Care Cliff
By Keeping Investment Going, About a Dozen States Have Kept Providers Open and Tuition Increases Down.
The federal American Rescue Plan Act, signed into law in early 2022, sent the child care sector the single largest...
There is a concept, variously used in science and business, known as the “valley of death.” In essence, this is the dangerous period between research & development and on-the-ground adoption where many ideas and ventures fail.
When we hear the word, “lullaby,” most of us imagine something like the dictionary definition of “a gentle, quiet song that lulls a child to sleep,” a cradle song to soothe a baby’s way to the Land of Nod. For the past 12 years, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute has been refining that definition with its Lullaby Project.
Earlier this month, Early Learning Nation magazine created our first-ever survey to better understand our audiences’ motivation for reading and...
Cal Newport Thinks We Can Work Better – But Where Does Caregiving Fit In?
Q+A with Bestselling Author on How and Why Care and Work Intersect
Work and caregiving seem to exist as a yin and yang on our lives: the pull of one exerts influence...
Of Toddlers and Teenagers: Ellen Galinsky Breaks Through Adolescence with Brain Science and New Book
Ellen Galinsky’s The Breakthrough Years is the product of nearly a decade of exploration into the adolescent mind.
Bank Street College of Education’s second cohort of Early Childhood Policy Fellows includes 13 female leaders working toward quality and...
Partnership for America’s Children Nurtures a New Generation of Advocates and Leaders
5 Ways Millennials Push for State and Local Policy Change
Marquita Little Numan took the helm of Partnership for America’s Children last August, just a few weeks before the Executive...
