The morning after Edythe Smith gave birth to her daughter, she got some bad news. State funding for a government program that helps low- and moderate-income families pay for child care had just been frozen in Syracuse, New York, where she lives. Smith is a single parent who works full time from home as an auto claims insurance adjuster. When her maternity leave ended last fall, she had no choice but to return to work while continuing to care full time for an increasingly mobile — sometimes perilously curious — baby.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — During the first year and a half of her son’s life, Valerie Gregory did everything she could to help him thrive: She read to him, talked to him, showed up for wellness checks, and whenever possible took him to a weekly playgroup, where both mother and son had the chance to socialize with peers. At one of these gatherings, organizers brought along a standardized developmental questionnaire that helps gauge if children are hitting rough milestones for their age, like making eye contact, sitting up and waving goodbye. …

In Milwaukee, a child’s blood test is often the first housing inspection

Under Secretary Linda McMahon, the work of the Office for Civil Rights, which aims to protect students from discrimination, is cloaked in secrecy.

"We were attracted to the idea of providing a play-by-play of the progression of measles in granular detail."

As a growing number of states weaken childhood immunization requirements, physicians fear many families will miss critical wellness checks.

As a growing number of states weaken childhood immunization requirements, physicians fear many families will miss critical wellness checks.

Before Trump took office, postpartum immigrants were rarely detained by ICE. Nayra Guzmán was detained while her 15-day-old baby was in the NICU.

The transition, in which Teen Vogue will keep its unique editorial identity and mission, fortifies the evolving Vogue ecosystem.

The government shutdown has forced providers of the early learning and child care program for lower-income families to close across the country.

And after more than five decades, New York’s experience offers a case study in how elusive it can be to identify children as gifted before they even start school.

Every year, tens of thousands of infants are born prematurely, at a low birthweight, or with other conditions that would make them automatically eligible for therapeutic services that could help them thrive. When everything goes smoothly, early intervention provides those services, required by federal law, for children ages birth to 3. Depending on the community, the program is paid for by federal, state or local dollars, or private insurance. But far too few of the youngest children actually receive that help. (It’s an issue I wrote about earlier this year.) One particular gap is in services provided to infants from birth to 1.

Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care. Doctors are worried for their health — and the health of their pregnancies.

New York’s early intervention providers haven’t seen a substantive raise in three decades — and vulnerable young children are losing out.

The Hechinger Report features Sarah Carr in coverage of state-supported programs like Ohio's PROMISE and Vermont’s inclusion grants that aim to curb child care expulsions of children with disabilities...

President Donald Trump Sept. 3 said he is considering deploying the military in New Orleans as part of his nation-wide push targeting cities with large immigrant and Black populations. According to t...

After Hurricane Katrina, many New Orleans charter schools united in a mission to send more students to college. Today, some of those students, now adults, wish they'd been given more options.

Illinois hospital staff must soon refer parents of premature infants to services that can prevent years of intensive and expensive therapy. The new law follows a Hechinger Report story about the issue...

State funded initiatives in Ohio and other parts of the country are working to strengthen child care teachers’ knowledge and confidence in working with young children with disabilities and development...

A cash transfer program for high schoolers resulted in better attendance and more financial literacy, but no improvement in grades.

Zia’s arrest is the latest case of federal authorities detaining immigrants with legal status during immigration check-ins. Lawmakers call the detainment of those who helped U.S. troops at war a betra...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Maggi’s home in a suburban neighborhood here is a haven for local families. It’s a place where after just a few weeks in Maggi’s family-run child care program this spring, one pres...

Peggy Carr, the former commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, at her Maryland home on July 1. Carr worked for the Education Department for more than 35 years before the Trump administration placed her on administrative leave on Feb. 24. Peggy Carr's last day on the job came so abruptly that she only had time to grab a few personal photos and her coat before a security officer escorted her out of her office and into a chilly February afternoon. She still doesn't know why she was summarily dismissed as commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), where she helped build…

Cuts to federal health-care spending make it harder for doctors to make the oldest promise in medicine: that we will do no harm.

For Learning Disability Week, Carrie Gillispie reminds us: Dog Man began in a hallway, drawn by a kid with ADHD looking to belong.

As the Trump administration issues executive orders related to DEI, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association is considering dropping references to DEI in favor of “person-centered care.

Single parents will have to work to receive food benefits while some married parents will not.

Check out Hope Against Hope: Three Schools, One City, and the Struggle to Educate America's Children on Bookshop.org US!

Culling data from medical records, pharmacies, genetic tests, even smartwatches raises specter of lists Nazis used to kill hundreds of autistic kids.

With diagnoses at a record high, some experts have begun to question our assumptions about the condition — and how to treat it.

In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.

The White House's budget proposes eliminating Head Start, an early childhood education program that provides services to low-income families.

The three children and their mother were detained after ICE agents searched a dairy farm on March 27 during a separate child pornography investigation.

The right-wing effort to roll back civil rights finds a new target.

Providers operating on ‘razor-thin margins’ worry about the possibility of deep cuts