Early on in the recently released documentary Through The Night, Deloris “Nunu” Hogan circles up the group of children under...
Vocabulary for the Win with Conversational Turns
A Scalable Program for Early Learning
The massive inequality that characterizes children’s opportunity to learn and succeed in the U.S. is no secret. Children who have...
Getting a child outdoors to embrace literacy, art and the great outdoors is simple: All you need is a cordless...
As kids head back to school—in person, hybrid or remote—a wistfulness for the missed opportunities of summer might be setting...
For decades, the Educational Alliance on Manhattan’s Lower East Side ran two parallel but separate early childhood programs. If you...
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...
In the 1970s, New York Times delivery trucks didn’t go to neighborhoods like Majora Carter’s.
Elliot’s Provocations unpacks current events in the early learning world and explores how we can chart a path to a...
New York City’s Robin Hood Foundation is known for applying rigorous metrics to evaluate the poverty-fighting impact of its grants,...
Willie Lightfoot is a Rochester (NY) City Councilmember. He’s also a longtime barber. And it’s in both roles that he has made an impact on early learning. As Lightfoot explains, the time when a child waits for a haircut makes for an outstanding opportunity to read. It’s just one of the lessons one can take from Lightfoot’s chair, including his common reminder to be positive.
How the Stories Kids Tell Shape Their Worlds
A conversation with Andrei Cimpian of NYU’s Cognitive Development Lab
Why am I having trouble counting when my friends aren’t? Is it because I’m not smart? How come Mom quit...
Turning NYC into an Early Learning Metropolis
Robin Hood’s Kelvin Chan on FUEL’s Investments in the Youngest New Yorkers
Shortly after Kelvin Chan, PhD, managing director of Early Childhood at Robin Hood, gave a SXSW presentation on Fund for...