For decades, the Educational Alliance on Manhattan’s Lower East Side ran two parallel but separate early childhood programs. If you...
As kids head back to school—in person, hybrid or remote—a wistfulness for the missed opportunities of summer might be setting...
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$10 Million Initiative to Transform NYC into an Early Learning Metropolis Supports Children’s First Teachers, Bolsters Nonprofits
The earliest years in a child’s life create the foundation for lifelong development. Anyone who’s traded smiles with a baby...
In 2012, Robin Hood partnered with the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University to launch the Poverty...
Getting a child outdoors to embrace literacy, art and the great outdoors is simple: All you need is a cordless...
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...
Early on in the recently released documentary Through The Night, Deloris “Nunu” Hogan circles up the group of children under...
A Golden Opportunity for Early Childhood Apprenticeships
Why the Bank Street College of Education Believes the Time Is Right
Apprenticeships are practically as old as civilization, a concept normally associated with trades like blacksmithing and tailoring rather than child...
‘Ten Birthday Cakes? We’ll Take Care of It’
Jazzy Sun Birthdays Connects Homeless Kids and Volunteers for Their Special Day
Volunteers with Jazzy Sun Birthdays are accustomed to a wide variety of requests for birthday themes from the children they...
Wes Moore’s Tale of Two Cities
Fate and Faith in Baltimore, New York City and Beyond
Just as Early Learning Nation showcases the ways families, researchers and grassroots nonprofits and organizations are building an early learning...
The best time to get a child’s life off to a solid start begins months before their birth. That’s why...
Summer’s here, and the time is right for… helping our kids hold onto what they learned during this extraordinary year....
