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Book Review: Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One

Majora Carter’s Community Manifesto Starts with Real Estate

Mark Swartz·Feb 1, 2022·3 min read

Gentrification is a subject that has launched a million listserv arguments. It often starts with complaints from longtime residents of...

Beyond the Brain Science: Early Childhood Luminary Jack Shonkoff Calls For “ECD 2.0”

Elliot Haspel·Jan 27, 2022·3 min read

When Jack Shonkoff speaks, the early childhood field listens. Shonkoff, a pediatrician who leads Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child,...

Ready Ready: An Early Childhood “Backbone” in North Carolina

Mark Swartz·Jan 25, 2022·5 min read

Guilford, the third largest county in North Carolina, was the site of the 1960 Woolworth counter sit-in that helped spread...

New Study: Giving Mothers Cash Improves Children’s Brain Development

Bryce Covert·Jan 24, 2022·5 min read

It’s long been clear that children who grow up in poverty struggle later in their lives, experiencing everything from increased...

The Rapid-EC Survey Project: Listening to Families, Collecting the Evidence to Support Change

Mark Swartz·Jan 20, 2022·6 min read

What do you do when the world is turned upside-down? Once you stop panicking, you listen. That’s the core value...

Are We Getting Dumber? The Imperative of Investing in Early Childhood

The Editors·Jan 18, 2022·3 min read

During the pandemic, life expectancy has trended down. Equally troubling, and far less discussed, is a recent decline in average...

Bringing Unlicensed Care out of the Shadows

Mark Swartz·Jan 13, 2022·3 min read

Experts and officials often talk about “child care deserts” to describe regions without enough formal child care, but Maki Park...

Great Beginnings in the Great Plains: Communities for Kids Builds Nebraska’s Child Care Infrastructure, Cultivates All Community Stakeholders

Mark Swartz·Jan 11, 2022·3 min read

Marti Beard is a fifth-generation rancher in addition to being vice president of Early Childhood Programs of Nebraska Children and...

Clear the Dance Floor: Baby Steps Happening Here

Recent Study Explores Factors that Influence Development of Walking Skill

K.C. Compton·Jan 6, 2022·5 min read

Whoever decided to use baby steps as a metaphor for timid, tenuous beginnings had it all wrong. Baby steps are...

New Year’s Resolutions for the Early Learning Community

Elliot Haspel·Jan 4, 2022·7 min read

2021 was a momentous year for early childhood care & education. The field suffered blow after blow from COVID and then a knock-on staffing crisis; received nearly $50 billion in rescue funds to temporarily patch the gaping leaks; and is ending the year on the precipice of receiving enough public funds through the Build Back Better Act to finally become a stable and healthy sector.