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

Mark Swartz·December 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·December 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·November 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.

Susan Neuman’s Unbound Ambitions

Mark Swartz·September 7, 2022·3 min read

“Literacy learning for young children is not bound in time and space,” proclaims Susan Neuman’s latest paper for Reading Research...

Sharing the Findings from Better Life Lab: Improving Child Care Assistance and Investment

Part 4 of a 5-Part Series

Rebecca Gale·August 23, 2022·10 min read

Our country is in a child care crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic, which has shown how difficult it is for...

Reading Their Way to Better Parenting: Baby Book Projects Show It Can Be Done

K.C. Compton·July 7, 2022·7 min read

An unfortunate fact about the health care and child development information physicians try to cover during well-child checkups is that...

5 Top Takeaways from the Investing in Child Care Careers Webinar

Mark Swartz·May 5, 2022·3 min read

On April 26, the Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR) School at Cornell University hosted a webinar titled “Equity in Focus:...

States, Time to Step Up on Child Care

Elliot Haspel·March 1, 2022·8 min read

Elliot’s Provocations unpacks current events in the early learning world and explores how we can chart a path to a...

The Lesser-known Effort to Help Fix Child Care and Pay Teachers More

Kendra Hurley·February 8, 2022·4 min read

Within a notoriously underpaid workforce, Louisiana’s child care teachers receive some of the lowest wages—making on average $9.77 an hour...

The Raising Child Care Fund: Centering the Most Impacted Voices

Elliot Haspel·October 13, 2021·10 min read

As the fight for an effective and well-funded child care system continues, philanthropies are exploring innovative avenues to support advocacy...

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