Charnae Easton knew she wanted to breastfeed her daughter. Even when she was pregnant and requesting accommodations to her mail...
In an era of Congressional gridlock, states are increasingly lighting the path forward around early care and education. I have been immensely impressed by the progress Massachusetts has made in recent years.
Mind Field: One Topic, Six Experts
#2: Inequity
Early Learning Nation explores the world of early learning by connecting with advocates, community leaders, early learning professionals, parents and...
Elliot’s Provocations unpacks current events in the early learning world and explores how we can chart a path to a...
Those following the debates regarding President Biden’s historic child care proposal may be experiencing whiplash. On the one hand, a...
Where do you go for the top news in Early Learning at the state level? Check out “5 Questions for...
According to Roberta Michnick Golinkoff & Kathy Hirsh-Pasek – researchers and co-authors of “Becoming Brilliant, What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children” – language is the single best predictor of how young children will do in school. That’s why they’ve created an innovative, easy way for practitioners to measure students’ verbal progress. Filmed for Early Learning Nation’s Mobile Studio at the Society for Research in Child Development’s biennial meeting in Baltimore, MD, on March 22, 2019. #SRCD19
Claudia Goldin, recent Nobel Prize winner and the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University, is a trailblazer who...
“What do you do for child care when your kids are on break from school?” I asked a new acquaintance...
America Doesn’t Know How to Talk About Child Care
Child care is finally getting widespread attention, but we have yet to answer the essential questions: what is child care and who is it for?
I’ll be honest, I didn’t expect child care to be a major flashpoint in the 2024 election cycle. There are...
What role does play play in early learning? Kasper Ottosson Kanstrup, vice president and global head of Communities through Play at The Lego Foundation, pulls out his bag of toys, er, research and explains the science of how children learn through play.
Child care has traditionally been a politically quiet sector. I don’t mean there hasn’t been resolute advocacy, but that has largely (though certainly not entirely) happened behind the scenes -- at least in the U.S. there isn’t a long history of major public actions such as protests and strikes.
