A recent column by the popular center-left writer Matt Yglesias reinforced for me yet again why we need a different foundation for our care arguments.
Early Education Is the Most Segregated Learning Space
How Researchers Casey Stockstill and Halley Potter Hope to Change That
It’s been 70 years since the Supreme Court’s pivotal Brown vs. Board of Education ruling that racially segregated schools are...
Pumping the Brakes on Private Equity’s Run on Child Care
New Report by the National Women’s Law Center and Open Markets Institute
Rebecca Slaughter has a simple explanation for how private equity affects our economy: “When markets are competitively healthy, they have...
In the midst of my search for a new child care provider for my one-year-old, I’ve braced myself for the...
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.
I wrote last year about the strange schism between early child care and school-aged child care, and I don’t want to belabor the point other than to say parents of school-aged children represent a shockingly untapped care constituency. Instead, I want to talk about summer care, and summer camp specifically.
Other Countries Have Social Safety Nets: The U.S. Has Women
Q+A with author Jessica Calarco on her new book, “Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net”
Jessica Calarco is onto something. There’s a reason why women in this country feel that so much pressure rests on...
Though it’s been decades since I’ve read it, I’m certain I could come out of a deep sleep and, if...
“I’m a reader!” These are magic words for Alvin Irby, a former teacher and the founder and executive director of...
The scene is familiar the world over: a parent speaks to their baby in that high, singsong voice we now...
I’ve had the privilege of working with Elliot Haspel and reading his work on child care since I began reporting...
Terri Simms has run her child care business, known as Playtime Nursery School, in Dayton, Ohio for over 27 years....
