When the Council for Professional Recognition issued its millionth Child Development Associate (CDA) credential in September 2023, it was cause...
7 Reasons to Be Encouraged about the Planet Our Children Are Inheriting
Finding Hope in the U.S. Early Years Climate Action Plan
While climate change is all around us, and the projections are uniformly grim, there have never been so many local,...
At the Blackfeet Early Childhood Center on the Blackfeet Nation about an hour south of the Canadian-U.S. border in Montana,...
Quality Journalism Needed to Shift Attitudes on Child Care
Takeaways from the Better Life Lab Child Care Innovation Reporting Grants
It began with Build Back Better. Well, truthfully, it has been a decades-long push for many advocacy organizations to put...
Imagine you work for an advocacy organization in one state and you want to find out how other states are...
What two words are the universal answer to practically any question dealing with the reproductive health of incarcerated women in...
A majority of early childhood education (ECE) workers who would be most affected by the creation of a national teaching...
Recently, an unprecedented amount of attention has coalesced around the U.S. child care market. In the wake of Covid-19—with thousands...
Chelsea Page knew when she was pregnant with her second child that, once the baby was born, she was going...
Last year, I wrote a column on five trends to look for in 2023 (which I think in retrospect were mostly apt, though the answer to ‘is bipartisanship possible’ seems to have been ‘outlook not so good’), and thought it would be worthwhile to do it again as the calendar gets ready to turn.
Experts say that every dollar invested in care produces $9 in spending. Child care spending in particular both creates jobs...
In October, three men joined the Hunt Institute’s Dan Wuori to discuss what it is like to be one of...