This July, American parents started experiencing something brand new. After Democrats passed an expansion of the Child Tax Credit in...
A visitor looking for Eastside Baby Corner (EBC) might be excused for thinking they were searching for a modest storefront...
If Tiffany Gale got eight full hours of sleep a night, she’d never be able to get everything done. In...
The Covid-19 pandemic has been a catastrophe that helped reveal some of the deepest fissures in the isolated nuclear family,...
Home visiting programs are one of the most effective ways of providing valuable services to families with young children. The...
Economists are famously bad at predicting the future. (There’s even an old joke: Why did God create economists? To make weather forecasters look good.) Nevertheless, thinking like an economist can help prepare us for what lies ahead for our children.
Child care workers are the backbone of the economy and a smart new campaign from the National Women’s Law Center...
As kids head back to school—in person, hybrid or remote—a wistfulness for the missed opportunities of summer might be setting...
On August 31, Capita held a webinar called “The Rights of Children in America: Do We Need a Constitutional Amendment?” Provocative? You bet. Elliot Haspel—whose new monthly column, “Elliot’s Provocations,” just launched in Early Learning Nation—served as moderator for the conversation.
The red tote bags hold adventure and history. They hold laughter and struggle. They hold inspiration and understanding. Recently, the...
Last November, voters in Multnomah County, Ore., approved a measure to form a new universal preschool system. To pay for it, the county, which includes the city of Oregon, will collect a 1.5% tax on incomes of more than $125,000 per year and joint filings topping $250,000.
It all started with a spanakopita. Ellie Krieger was about eight years old, and her mother and aunt took her...
