Agents in Their Own Learning Q&A with the Play Learning Lab’s Angela Pyle Mark Swartz·Aug 8, 2024·4 min readDr. Angela Pyle is director of the Play Learning Lab at University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.... Read More
‘Music Zoo’ Gives Preschoolers an Up Close and Personal Experience of Music-MakingK.C. Compton·Aug 7, 2024·5 min readWhen University of Arkansas student Jackson Joyce took his saxophone to the Jean Tyson Child Development Center one late spring... Read More
Stress Hormones In Preschoolers Improve With Emotional Knowledge, Study IndicatesK.C. Compton·Aug 6, 2024·7 min readPicture this: a 3-year-old in a preschool classroom is playing with a popular toy when a classmate asks if they... Read More
Child Care Down on the FarmElliot Haspel·Aug 1, 2024·5 min readThe child care movement needs a broad base of support in order to win an effective, publicly-funded system. Now, a new research paper is opening another door by showing how child care is impacting that most respected of American icons: farmers. Read More
5 Top Takeaways from the Conversation: From Access to Opportunity – The Magic of Children’s BooksMark Swartz·Jul 30, 2024·4 min readIt’s no surprise that the entire Early Learning Nation magazine team is filled with readers (and authors, too): voracious, life-long... Read More
Where Should Women Channel Their Ambition? Samhita Mukhopadhyay on The Myth of Making It in a World Set Up For Women to Fail Haley Swenson·Jul 25, 2024·10 min readFour years since the COVID-19 pandemic shook U.S. workplaces and its child care systems, parents continue to engage in vital... Read More
5 Top Takeaways from the CGLR Conversation: AI and the Early Childhood WorkforceMark Swartz·Jul 24, 2024·3 min readOn June 25, the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading held a webinar on the benefits and risks of bringing artificial intelligence... Read More
Helping Children Make Sense of Their World through ScienceK.C. Compton·Jul 23, 2024·8 min readA recent report by a National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine committee declared the need to promote science, technology,... Read More
8 Top Takeaways from the Conversation: The Future of Child Care Reporting From Those Who Cover It Learn More about Better Life Lab and Early Learning Nation’s Reporter Roundtable Rebecca Gale·Jul 17, 2024·3 min readYou don’t have to work in journalism to know that the field is changing rapidly. Newspapers are continuing to vanish... Read More
Diapers are Missing from the Safety Net. American Families are Paying the Price.Elise Anderson·Jul 16, 2024·9 min readDid you know that infants require up to 12 diapers per day? Did you also know this can cost families... Read More
Breathing Free in Iowa with Karin Stein of Moms Clean Air Force (EcoMadres)Mark Swartz·Jul 12, 2024·5 min readWith more than 1.5 million members, Moms Clean Air Force unleashes the power of mothers on behalf of Mother Nature.... Read More
5 Top Takeaways from the Child Trends Conversation: Next Generation Leadership for Black Child and Family Well-BeingMark Swartz·Jul 11, 2024·4 min readWhile we’re taking Early Learning Nation Studio on the road less often during the pandemic, we’re offering recaps—Top Takeaways—from important... Read More