Deborah VanderGaast originally started running a child care business out of her home in Tipton, Iowa in 2005 serving children...
As a man, a husband and a father, it turns out reading a book about motherhood could hardly be more valuable.
For my last column of the year, I want to touch on a less-discussed but not-unimportant question: what in the heck should we call the care and education of children during the first five years of their life?
This November, New Mexicans sent a resounding message to their state officials: fund early childhood education. With 70% voter approval,...
Yesterday, New Mexico voters made history: they overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment that makes theirs the first state to guarantee...
On Tomorrow’s Ballot, New Mexico Votes on Funding Universal Child Care
Q and A with a New Mexico Child Care Policy Expert
New Mexico made national headlines in the spring of 2022 when Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham waived child care subsidy copays...
As I travel internationally, I have been thinking a lot about how we position child care in the United States. I am increasingly concerned by an ascendant school of thought that emphasizes a role for employer-sponsored child care benefits.
Free school meals were a godsend for Lynnea Hawkins long before the pandemic. Her son was living with his father...
A former editor of mine, while editing a policy-heavy story that needed more depth, lamented the demise of beat reporting....
In 1996, the United States overhauled its approach to helping poor families using a commonsense-sounding yet untested idea: the notion...
Elliot’s Provocations unpacks current events in the early learning world and explores how we can chart a path to a...
While there is much to celebrate about the Inflation Reduction Act, one group was left on the outside looking in: parents with young children.
