In Part I of this interview, Dr. Joshua Sparrow, executive director of the Brazelton Touchpoints Center, delves into the legacy...
The American Rescue Plan signed by President Joe Biden on March 12 contains a number of potentially game-changing policies for...
Just as Early Learning Nation showcases the ways families, researchers and grassroots nonprofits and organizations are building an early learning...
Darryl McDaniels might strike some as an unlikely ambassador for early literacy. Today, McDaniels, 57, is exercising his education muscle with a vocabulary-building series from Noggin called “What’s the Word?”
Cast in America as a pay-to-play system with limited public funding, child care has long struggled with issues like difficult budgetary math, low educator pay, and highly variable quality. An unprecedented degree of investor activity is creating a cascade of risks for the sector, risks which threaten the path toward an inclusive child care system which works well for all children, parents, and early educators.
Bank Street College of Education’s second cohort of Early Childhood Policy Fellows includes 13 female leaders working toward quality and...
A little-noticed meteorite is about to smash into family child care providers. If Congress does not act by June 30th...
Recently, the anthropologist James Peacock III told me about the night in 1964 when his newborn daughter Louly had swallowed...
Just a few weeks after Oregon’s Department of Early Learning and Care broke off from the state’s Department of Education...
As the debate rages over proposals to improve U.S. child care, several commentators— mostly self-described conservatives—have pointed to Quebec’s child...
“Families are maxed out,” says Myra Jones-Taylor. “Not just children, but their parents and the support networks they rely upon.”...
2 Out Of 5 Child Care Teachers Make So Little They Need Public Assistance to Support Their Families
Wages for child care employees are lower than for animal caretakers and bellhops. In America, child care teachers earn a median wage of $13.07 an hour.
This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news outlet focused on education. Caring for children during their first...
