Just one day after President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential election and endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris gave her first remarks

New babies may be bundles of joy, but they also bring bundles of bills - and not every family is in a financial position to comfortably shoulder this new

On a recent Friday afternoon, student artists at the Zuni Youth Enrichment Project (ZYEP) were busy getting ready for an evening reception showcasing arts

Dr. Angela Pyle is director of the Play Learning Lab at University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. This role puts her in an ideal

When University of Arkansas student Jackson Joyce took his saxophone to the Jean Tyson Child Development Center one late spring afternoon, he wasn’t sure

Picture this: a 3-year-old in a preschool classroom is playing with a popular toy when a classmate asks if they can have the toy. The first child says,

The child care movement needs a broad base of support in order to win an effective, publicly-funded system. Now, a new research paper is opening another door by showing how child care is impacting tha...

Raising a nation of readers and empowering our kids with the empathy and understanding to succeed in our diverse world requires social and human fluency

It’s no surprise that the entire Early Learning Nation magazine team is filled with readers (and authors, too): voracious, life-long readers, catholic in

Four years since the COVID-19 pandemic shook U.S. workplaces and its child care systems, parents continue to engage in vital paid work without the support

On June 25, the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading held a webinar on the benefits and risks of bringing artificial intelligence (AI) into early education

A recent report by a National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine committee declared the need to promote science, technology, engineering and

You don’t have to work in journalism to know that the field is changing rapidly. Newspapers are continuing to vanish at an average rate of more than two a

Did you know that infants require up to 12 diapers per day? Did you also know this can cost families anywhere from $80 to upwards of $100 per month per

With more than 1.5 million members, Moms Clean Air Force unleashes the power of mothers on behalf of Mother Nature. Early Learning Nation magazine

While we’re taking Early Learning Nation Studio on the road less often during the pandemic, we’re offering recaps—Top Takeaways—from important

What do you get when you put a young child and a young adult together in a classroom? Magic, says Crystal Rountree, CEO of Jumpstart.

As mental-health professionals, pediatricians, parents and educators weigh how to address what is widely viewed as a mental health emergency facing

A recent column by the popular center-left writer Matt Yglesias reinforced for me yet again why we need a different foundation for our care arguments.

It’s been 70 years since the Supreme Court’s pivotal Brown vs. Board of Education ruling that racially segregated schools are unequal and

Rebecca Slaughter has a simple explanation for how private equity affects our economy: “When markets are competitively healthy, they have benefits across

In the midst of my search for a new child care provider for my one-year-old, I’ve braced myself for the hard numbers. In the United States, the cost of

While Helen Russell’s clever, well-researched exploration of the parenting culture of Denmark and other Nordic countries might not fully map onto the

The child care crisis in the United States—which affects families’ ability to find affordable, accessible, quality options—now has growing national

The federal Child Tax Credit (CTC) expanded in 2021 to address hardships families were facing during the pandemic. The size increased, and the credit was

In upstate New York, like many other parts of the country, the supply of child care has failed to keep pace with the demand. For example, Warren County

The United Nations has declared June 11 to be the first annual International Day of Play, calling it “a unifying moment at global, national and local

‎Show CampWire, Ep Episode 71 | The Summer Camp Economy - May 31, 2024

I wrote last year about the strange schism between early child care and school-aged child care, and I don’t want to belabor the point other than to say parents of school-aged children represent a shoc...

The 92-year-old artist Duane Michals might not seem like an obvious figure to feature in a magazine about early learning. However, his understanding of the world and the many-splendored nature of his ...

Jessica Calarco is onto something. There’s a reason why women in this country feel that so much pressure rests on their shoulders, that parenting is hard,

Though it’s been decades since I’ve read it, I’m certain I could come out of a deep sleep and, if commanded, recite The Cat in the Hat in its entirety.

Candy Mink Springs, Okla.—Until Sequoyah Littledeer was almost four, he didn’t speak. As a non-verbal infant and toddler, his parents struggled to

Elected leaders tend to shun compromise during campaign season, and these days it feels like we’re always in campaign season. Convergence represents an

“I’m a reader!” These are magic words for Alvin Irby, a former teacher and the founder and executive director of Barbershop Books. Created in 2013,

The scene is familiar the world over: a parent speaks to their baby in that high, singsong voice we now know as “parentese;” the baby reacts with wide,

Last year, the Department of Commerce announced a historic first: Companies applying for a federal grant program had to provide a plan for offering child care to their workers. The grant money comes f...