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A New Year of Reflection, Impact and Equity

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

The Next Steps for First Steps Kent

Valley Settlement: Deep-Listening Tour Becomes Targeted Programming for Colorado Community

Collaboration is Key as Mattel Introduces First Autistic Character—Bruno the Brake Car—for Thomas & Friends

Mount Sinai Pilot Project: Creating a Culture Shift in Pediatric Health Care

Iowa Governor Refuses Federal Early Childhood Money Despite Child Care Crisis

A New Coalition Promotes Children's Self-Esteem (and Expanded Worldviews) through Diverse Books

Neurons and Neighborhoods in the Nation’s Capital

Book Review: Screaming on the Inside: How Modern Motherhood Explains the Child Care Crisis

Elliot’s Provocations: Child Care or Early Childhood Education?

How Grassroots Activists Got Early Childhood Education Aid on the Ballot in New Mexico

First-Ever Study Provides High-Tech Window on Mother-Child Brain Synchrony

Giving Thanks: Early Childhood Leaders and Educators Express Their Gratitude

6 Top Takeaways from the Launch: Stanford Center on Early Learning

For Children and the Climate, the Future Is Now

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

Elliot Haspel Is Building Bridges between Early Childhood and Climate Change

Faith-Based Child Care: Stories from Michigan

5 Top Takeaways from the Children’s Movement of Florida’s Born to Thrive Annual Summit

Book Review: Wanting What’s Best: Parenting, Privilege and Building a Just World

Neighborhood Villages: Boston-Based Child Care Innovation Lab for Solutions that Can Scale

New Mexico is the First State to Guarantee a Right to Early Childhood Education. Universal Child Care Could Come Next

Squaring Up with History: Child Trends’ Chrishana Lloyd and Julianna Carlson Dig Deep on the Value of Care

Keywords and Coffee Fuel In-Depth Studies of Environmental Education in Early Childhood

For Families and Children, a Champion for Democracy and “Constructive Disagreements”

Elliot’s Provocations: Employer-Sponsored Child Care is a Wrong Turn

From Wildfires to Hurricanes, Midwives Could Play a Key Role in Disaster Response

Using Design Thinking to Reimagine the Child Development Associate Credential

Chronicling a Social Catastrophe, So We Can Prepare Better for the Next One

Meeting the Moment: Overcoming Occupational Segregation and the Systemic Devaluing of Women’s Work

Shame, Stigma and Hunger Return as Congress Eliminates Free Meals for All in Public Schools

5 Top Takeaways from the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading’s Webinar: Bringing Dolly Parton’s Library to Every WV County!

How Did COVID-19 Affect Pre-K Expulsion Rates? The Results Surprised the Researchers

New Research Shows Welfare Work Requirements Have Been a Disaster for Young Kids

5 Ways Colleges Can Assist Students Who Are Parents of Young Children

Book Review: The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain

Elliot’s Provocations: Child Care Lessons from Ireland

New Resource Offers Roadmap for Informing, Evaluating Farm to Early Care and Education Programs

Montessori and Equity: Rising to New Challenges

New Ascend Fellows Announced at the Aspen Institute

Baby Formula: The Story of How America Helped Invent One of the Great Life-Saving Technologies for Babies, Made Parents Dependent On It, Then Let the System Collapse Is…Uniquely American

What Does Accountable and Justice-Oriented Early Childhood Education Look Like?

Maria Montessori Myth Busting

Maria Montessori’s Influence on Early Education

Book Review: Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

Susan Neuman’s Unbound Ambitions

Lynette Johnson’s Appetite for Food Justice

Elliot's Provocations: How Congress Can Still Save Child Care

5 Top Takeaways from the Conversation: Strengthening Systems by Embedding Equity when Defining Quality

"I Can't Compete": Child Care Providers are Losing Staff to McDonald's and Target

Free Anti-Stress Kit Brings H.E.L.P. for Stressed-Out, Burned-Out Educators and Families

3 Top Takeaways from the Hunt Institute Webinar: Ideal Learning Environments

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

Book Review: Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit

Voices and Visions for Transformative Change from Child Care NEXT

Recent Analysis: Even Before the Pandemic, Child Care Providers Were Overworked and Underpaid

Book Review: The Emotionally Intelligent Child

3 Top Takeaways from Mobilizers Leading a Quiet Revolution in Child Care

Recent Study Suggests Head Start Programs Provide Effective Intervention in Addressing Childhood Obesity

Elliot's Provocations: School Readiness and the Tyranny of Merit

5 Top Takeaways from the Hunt Institute ‘Shared Services’ Webinar

Sal Khan and His Planet-Saving Academy

The Early Years Climate Action Task Force: “A Natural and Necessary Focus”

Not a Moment Too Soon: A New Network Offers Promise for Our Broken Child Care Picture

Child Care Innovation: Centralizing Administrative Roles

7 Insights for Teaching and Serving Our Youngest Immigrants

Three Zaentz Fellows Look Forward to Sparking Systemic Change

Breaking Poverty’s Grip: New Head Start Study of Second-Generation Statistics Show It Can Be Done

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

The Many Cases for Child Care

Innovations in Child Care: Meeting Parents’ Diverse Needs and Preferences

New York City’s 60-year-old Fight for Universal Child Care

Thriving Providers Project: First of Its Kind Effort Uses Guaranteed Income to Address Compensation of Early Childhood Education Workforce

Economists Find Investing in Child Care Will Dramatically Reduce Costs, Increase Mother's Employment and Increase Quality Care

Learning to Read Online: It’s Possible, Doable and Could Involve Chicken Hats

We Asked Some Men We Admire: What’s Your Challenge to American Dads?

Colorado Bilingual Program Builds on Immigrant Mothers’ Strengths to Diversify Early Education and Care Workforce

Innovations in Child Care Investment: Building the Case for Public and Private Funds

Gordon Hartman’s Ultra-Accessible™ Ambitions

Study Shows Stronger Outcomes for English Learners with Early Access to Pre-K Programs

Unstructured Play and Self-Regulation Study Shows Children Need Time and Space to Make Their Own Fun

Unleashing the Learning Potential of Latino Infants

“Those children probably aren’t going to be eating”: Family Child Care Providers Prepare for Food Program Cliff

The Quality Trap: The Movement to Reconsider QRIS

Connoisseurs of Silly: Babies Start Laughing Early—And They Think Your Material Is Great