“There is growing agreement on the need for more highly skilled child care teachers and an increased awareness that teachers...
Elliot’s Provocations: Bring on School-Aged Care
Can We Create a Seamless Melding of Early Child Care and School-Aged Care?
Linking early child care and school-aged care is a good idea both on the merits and the politics. I’m hardly the first one to point this out, but I want to highlight the opportunity here as we head into summer break and the acute headache it causes for many families.
While we see the tyranny of merit most active in K-12 and higher education, school readiness is the Trojan horse through which it has breached the world of early childhood.
During her convention speech last week, Senator Elizabeth Warren, sitting in a now closed child care center, spoke about the...
Looking at contemporary Western society, the conclusion that we’re going to Hell in a handbasket might not seem farfetched. An...
With 95 percent of all children living in “the majority world in developing countries” – but with only 5 percent of the early learning research coming from these locations – Aleem Walji, CEO of Aga Khan Foundation USA, is focused on bringing knowledge on what it takes to develop a child’s brain to parents, policymakers, teachers, doctors, nurses and front-line caregivers around the world.
It’s hard enough to find child care in this country that is dependable and affordable when working a regular 9...
The question that parents and practitioners really want to know is this: How safe are child cares? Or, put another way, how likely is my child (or am I) to catch COVID-19 from a child care center? In order to know that, we need to be able to answer how much transmission is occurring WITHIN child care centers? Until we ask the right questions and demand the right data, we’ll be stumbling in the dark.
Building community in a COVID-19 world is tough. But Brooklynites are nothing if not creative, industrious and hard-wired for...
Considering how often we say we care about children in the U.S., one might assume we’d be able to point...
New Mexico, a state long used to landing at the bottom of national rankings for children’s well-being, just made a...
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.
