A new report commissioned by the Early Educator Investment Collaborative—Mary Pauper: A Historical Exploration of Early Care and Education Compensation,...
Nobody studies early childhood for purely academic reasons; researchers’ studies hope to improve the lives of real kids. And the...
Jaffe doesn’t blame parents of privilege—a category to which she belongs—for the terrible circumstances of other children’s lives, but she does make clear that we all have a responsibility and a role in creating and perpetuating that disparity.
New York City’s 60-year-old Fight for Universal Child Care
Today’s Activists Are Part of A Long, Historic Struggle. Will They Succeed?
As a federal plan to make child care affordable languishes in Congress, New York City has joined the growing number...
New Ascend Fellows Announced at the Aspen Institute
Fellows Catalyze Change
For 10 years, Ascend at the Aspen Institute has worked with families and partners to generate educational success and economic...
“Clarissa’s Battle” and the Campaign for Child Care Subsidies
Talking to the director and the title subject of an important new documentary
“Clarissa’s Battle” tells the story of a 10-year campaign for a tax increase to subsidize child care in Alameda County,...
When Jack Shonkoff speaks, the early childhood field listens. Shonkoff, a pediatrician who leads Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child,...
While we see the tyranny of merit most active in K-12 and higher education, school readiness is the Trojan horse through which it has breached the world of early childhood.
When 25-year-old Masuma arrived in Colorado from Afghanistan in 2016 with her husband and toddler, she had already escaped the...
Montessori and Equity: Rising to New Challenges
Part 3 of a 3-Part Series
The Montessori method arose across the Atlantic and more than a century ago. How is it rising to the challenges set in motion by the global pandemic and national reckoning over racism? A new generation of Montessori leaders is infusing the approach with a heavier dose of equity.
