Just as Early Learning Nation showcases the ways families, researchers and grassroots nonprofits and organizations are building an early learning...
Nobody studies early childhood for purely academic reasons; researchers’ studies hope to improve the lives of real kids. And the...
Music, emotion and language are all tied up together. Neuroscientist Alistair Jennings has written that the brain “processes musical syntax...
Within a notoriously underpaid workforce, Louisiana’s child care teachers receive some of the lowest wages—making on average $9.77 an hour...
Some companies are responding to the child care crisis in a somewhat predictable way: they’re looking after their own. Stories have been emerging about a proliferation of on-site child care programs; an NPR article a few weeks ago noted that
In the 1970s, New York Times delivery trucks didn’t go to neighborhoods like Majora Carter’s.
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
Gentrification is a subject that has launched a million listserv arguments. It often starts with complaints from longtime residents of...
When Jack Shonkoff speaks, the early childhood field listens. Shonkoff, a pediatrician who leads Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child,...
Guilford, the third largest county in North Carolina, was the site of the 1960 Woolworth counter sit-in that helped spread...
It’s long been clear that children who grow up in poverty struggle later in their lives, experiencing everything from increased...
What do you do when the world is turned upside-down? Once you stop panicking, you listen. That’s the core value...
During the pandemic, life expectancy has trended down. Equally troubling, and far less discussed, is a recent decline in average...
