Last fall, I received an email from a distraught mother.
Isis Mabel made just $4.50 an hour caring for three children when she arrived in Massachusetts from Mexico as an...
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.
Faisa Farole is the first Black midwife to own and operate a freestanding birth center in the state of Washington....
Two pieces of news over the past few weeks are causing me to update my prediction and become far more concerned about the coming years.
Chelsea Page knew when she was pregnant with her second child that, once the baby was born, she was going...
Last year, I wrote a column on five trends to look for in 2023 (which I think in retrospect were mostly apt, though the answer to ‘is bipartisanship possible’ seems to have been ‘outlook not so good’), and thought it would be worthwhile to do it again as the calendar gets ready to turn.
Book Review: New Book on Preschool Segregation Raises Under-Examined Questions
False Starts: The Segregated Lives of Preschoolers
This week brings the release of an important new book on early care and education. False Starts: The Segregated Lives...
If you’ve been following my work at all, you know I bristle at many “incremental” solutions to child care challenges.
Amid major union actions in the auto and entertainment industries and a historic looming strike by health care workers, I want to talk about the role of unions in child care.
If caregiving is labor, if caregiving supports child development, if caregiving boosts the economy, if caregiving enables family flourishing, then how can we say only institutional programs belong within child care policy?
“Gold Standard” Study Finds High-Quality Care Is Important in Infancy
Study Finds the Benefits Last Well Into Elementary School
By now the benefits of high-quality preschool are widely accepted. But there are still open questions about its impact: Is...
