Elliot’s Provocations unpacks current events in the early learning world and explores how we can chart a path to a...
Elliot’s Provocations unpacks current events in the early learning world and explores how we can chart a path to a...
A recent report by a National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine committee declared the need to promote science, technology,...
Author’s Note: This moment, when the world has stopped spinning on its axis, presents an important opportunity to re-examine our...
Faisa Farole is the first Black midwife to own and operate a freestanding birth center in the state of Washington....
Picture this: a 3-year-old in a preschool classroom is playing with a popular toy when a classmate asks if they...
The U.S. child care system falls deeper into crisis with every passing day. The sector is still missing 100,000 educators compared to before the pandemic, and amid a competitive labor market, the staffing recovery has slowed to a crawl.
Cast in America as a pay-to-play system with limited public funding, child care has long struggled with issues like difficult budgetary math, low educator pay, and highly variable quality. An unprecedented degree of investor activity is creating a cascade of risks for the sector, risks which threaten the path toward an inclusive child care system which works well for all children, parents, and early educators.
Author’s Note: This moment, when the world has stopped spinning on its axis, presents an important opportunity to re-examine our...
It will take a long time for us to fully unpack the damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Research has...
While Helen Russell’s clever, well-researched exploration of the parenting culture of Denmark and other Nordic countries might not fully map onto the experience of most families in the U.S. or U.K. (Russell’s original home), it offers refreshing insights that can help parents relax a bit, give themselves heaps of grace and have much more fun raising their family.
When Jack Shonkoff speaks, the early childhood field listens. Shonkoff, a pediatrician who leads Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child,...