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What D.C.’s Early Childhood Educators Stand to Lose with the D.C. Pay Equity Fund Salary Cuts

Rebecca Gale·Apr 19, 2024·10 min read

Briyana Holloway remembers the shock when she saw her new paycheck. It was January 2024, and the Early Childhood Pay...

Paying Up: Enhancing Child Care Compensation Systems in Colorado, D.C. and Louisiana

Mark Swartz·Jan 19, 2024·6 min read

High-quality early education leads to lifelong success for children and their communities, and it cannot happen without professionals cultivating and...

Generation Hope: One Desperate Teen’s Story Grows into Hope for Hundreds

Collecting Data, Providing Services, Transforming Lives of Student Parents

K.C. Compton·May 11, 2023·7 min read

Two little pink lines. Sometimes that’s all it takes to derail a person’s life and torpedo any plans they might...

5 Top Takeaways: Hunt Institute and Alliance for Early Success Explore Big Wins for Little Kids 2022

Mark Swartz·Dec 22, 2022·4 min read

2022 produced an impressive number of big wins, which the Hunt Institute and Alliance for Early Success explored December 5 in this year’s edition of the Big Wins for Little Kids webinar.

Neurons and Neighborhoods in the Nation’s Capital

How a D.C. Women’s Shelter Is Becoming a Leader in Multigenerational Therapy

Mark Swartz·Dec 7, 2022·4 min read

Early in the pandemic, Dr. Alicia Lieberman, director of the Child Trauma Research Program at the University of California, San...

5 Top Takeaways from the Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center’s Summit

New State Policy Roadmap Published

Mark Swartz·Nov 17, 2022·4 min read

Last month, the Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center (PN-3) at Vanderbilt University hosted the 2022 Research to Policy Summit to mark the publication of its annual State Policy Roadmap.