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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.

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

Kendra Hurley·Feb 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...

Lack of High-Quality, Affordable Childcare Takes Its Toll on Parents, Workplaces, Economy

Tom Kertscher·Mar 10, 2020·4 min read

In each year from 2016 through 2018, more than 2 million parents of children age 5 and younger suffered “job...

The Raising Child Care Fund: Centering the Most Impacted Voices

Elliot Haspel·Oct 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...

Kyle Zimmer Builds Community of Educators on Frontlines of Economic and Educational Justice

Mark Swartz·Oct 29, 2019·9 min read

In the late 1980s, as Washington, D.C., endured the crack era, Kyle Zimmer felt compelled to do something to help...

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Winners Announced for PCI’s First Prenatal-to-Age-Three Grant Competition

Gerry Cobb·Jul 10, 2019·3 min read

When the Pritzker Children’s Initiative (PCI) launched a first-of-its-kind Prenatal-to-Age Three State Grant Competition late last year, 42 of 45...

Susan Neuman’s Unbound Ambitions

Mark Swartz·Sep 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...

States, Time to Step Up on Child Care

Elliot Haspel·Mar 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...

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

K.C. Compton·Jul 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...

Digital Inclusion: A Resource Guide for the Early Learning Community

Mark Swartz·Jun 8, 2020·2 min read

A new report from New America, Pandemic Planning for Distance Learning, laments the failure of school districts across the country...

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...

Top Takeaways from the Educare Webinar: Pandemic Responses in Three Cities

Mark Swartz·Aug 6, 2020·2 min read

“We’re not going to grow as a nation without a strong system of care,” Gladys Montes stated at the outset...

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