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OPINION: Federal Programs and Data Demonstrate the Value of Relative and Neighbor Child Care Providers

It's Time for Federal Policy to Do the Same

Natalie Renew·Sep 13, 2023·2 min read

Family, friend and neighbor child care (FFN)—child care that is offered informally in families and communities by trusted family members...

How Can We Make This School Year the Most Playful in History?

Educators and Experts Weigh In

Mark Swartz and Art Hondros (Illustrator)·Sep 7, 2023·6 min read

It’s “back to school” time, whether the children in your life are going back to an actual school or to...

Inspiring Educators with No Borders Between Play and Learning at the Center for Playful Inquiry

Part 6 in “Seasons of Play” Series

Mark Swartz·Sep 6, 2023·4 min read

If you’ve been following along, you’ll have found two common threads running through our Seasons of Play series: (1) play...

Elliot’s Provocations: Whither Family, Friends & Neighbor Care?

Elliot Haspel·Sep 5, 2023·6 min read

If caregiving is labor, if caregiving supports child development, if caregiving boosts the economy, if caregiving enables family flourishing, then how can we say only institutional programs belong within child care policy?

The Lahaina Fires Illuminate Our Immense Unpreparedness of Weather-Related Disasters

Will They Force Us to Reckon with the Vulnerability of Our Youngest Children in a Warming World?

Haley Swenson·Aug 30, 2023·8 min read

There were children in Lahaina as fires razed the historic town of 13,000 people on August 8. One survivor fled...

Dignity and Inclusion: Kendra Davenport on Revitalizing Easterseals’ Core Values

Mark Swartz·Aug 24, 2023·4 min read

Trusted by families for more than 100 years, Easterseals is one of the most recognized names in the nonprofit world,...

5 Top Takeaways from the Hunt Institute’s Technology in Early Childhood Discussion

Mark Swartz·Aug 23, 2023·3 min read

This summer, the Hunt Institute hosted a panel discussion on the risks and opportunities that technology presents in the lives...

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

Mark Swartz·Aug 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...

Book Review: Child Care Justice: Transforming the System of Care for Young Children

K.C. Compton·Aug 18, 2023·6 min read

A book intended as a catalyst for change, a call to action and marching papers for a national grassroots movement of those committed to addressing the racial, gender and economic injustices endemic to the ECE field.