Earlier this month, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof hailed “an enormous body of research showing that the greatest leverage...
An innovative fellowship launched by UMass Boston’s Institute for Early Educator Leadership and Innovation provides full scholarships for early educators. Funding...
Just as Early Learning Nation showcases the ways families, researchers and grassroots nonprofits and organizations are building an early learning...
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$10 Million Initiative to Transform NYC into an Early Learning Metropolis Supports Children’s First Teachers, Bolsters Nonprofits
The earliest years in a child’s life create the foundation for lifelong development. Anyone who’s traded smiles with a baby...
Deborah VanderGaast originally started running a child care business out of her home in Tipton, Iowa in 2005 serving children...
On Thursday, September 21, Trust for Learning and All Our Kin teamed up for a webinar titled “Educator-Led Movement Building: Lessons from Grassroots Leaders.”
Mount Sinai Pilot Project: Creating a Culture Shift in Pediatric Health Care
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Over a few nights in 2019, a radical change took place at New York’s renowned Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital....
Since the establishment of the Department of Early Learning back in 2006, we’ve seen a lot of growth in awareness about early brain development and the importance of getting it right in the early years. The recent passage of the Fair Start for Kids Act is a historic investment in both early learning and child care, and it’s a great example of how our understanding about the importance of early childhood has advanced over the past few decades.
When an international team of researchers surveyed humor development in children from 1 to 47 months, they asked parents to...
“Some of this stuff doesn't even make sense,” marvels Malcolm Mitchell, children’s author and executive director of the Share the Magic Foundation. “I'm actually sometimes taken aback by it, because I don't really know how it all transpired. Talking through it kind of helps.”
The number of investor-backed, for-profit child care chains in the United States has been growing in recent years, creating additional...
As the pandemic-era federal funding that propped up child care runs out — and the hope for Build Back Better...