3 Top Takeaways from Learning from This Moment
A Conversation with Early Childhood Philanthropic Leaders
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
You are the 75th Governor of North Carolina. What makes North Carolina unique among its peers? North Carolina is one...
The Founding Fathers built competition among the states into our system of government. With 50-plus laboratories for democracy, we’re bound...
Launched in London in 1844 and in Boston seven years later, the YMCA has the benefits and drawbacks of a...
North Carolina Has Lost More Than 5% of Licensed Child Care Programs Since the Pandemic Began
Closures of licensed child care programs have been outpacing the opening of new programs since at least June 2023
This article originally appeared at EdNC.org. Since February 2020, the number of licensed child care programs in North Carolina has...
COVID-19 is a bizarre disease that defies easy answers. It impacts the lungs – except when it doesn’t. It brutalizes...
Vaccine distribution is under way, but the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic carry on, and the fallout will continue in...
As an NLC Youth Representative, North Carolina High School junior Ramie Mack has the opportunity to talk with adults, including mayors and city councilmembers. And as she advocates for learning, Ramie wants those leaders to understand that youth face challenges, too. That’s just one reason she advocates for making sure students are part of the conversation when learning is being discussed.
Guilford, the third largest county in North Carolina, was the site of the 1960 Woolworth counter sit-in that helped spread...
Seedlings in the Garden: Childhood Food Sovereignty and the Push to Reclaim Indigenous Foodways
After their food systems were systematically destroyed, America’s Indian Tribes are teaching their children the importance of healthy diets through agricultural education
Every weekday morning, Nichole Efird greets her students with a hug and the promise of another adventure. With a curriculum...
In January of 2020, The Hunt Institute—an education policy non-profit based in Durham, NC—released updates to its State Early Childhood...
The question that parents and practitioners really want to know is this: How safe are child cares? Or, put another way, how likely is my child (or am I) to catch COVID-19 from a child care center? In order to know that, we need to be able to answer how much transmission is occurring WITHIN child care centers? Until we ask the right questions and demand the right data, we’ll be stumbling in the dark.
