In an emergency, child care providers are on the front lines to keep children and staff safe. One tool that is valuable for child care emergency preparedness, response and recovery is partnerships.
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Communities across North Carolina have been innovating solutions to market failures in early care and education, but the system remains in crisis…
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The U.S. has roughly 80,000 fewer child care workers since the pandemic started. We believe that part of the solution to the workforce dilemma is higher pay. One way to foster higher pay is by recruiting more men to early childhood education.
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Many of the families who need child care the most can’t get it. (Photo by Andrii Zorii, Getty Images) The lack of available and affordable …
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Many thousands of child care providers caught in the same tsunami that knocked out Rockport are asking the same questions, as are many thousands more who have stayed open, but…
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Debate continues on Biden’s “Build Back Better” social infrastructure bill offering a historic expansion of child care and universal preschool. Early childhood education is a socially popular endeavor with strong bipartisan support and…
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In the spring of 2022, reports showed that only 67 percent of third graders were reading at grade level in the aftermath of the pandemic. Following on the heels of the recently…
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A report finds that lower-quality preschools continue to result in disadvantages for young children from low-income New York City families—many of them Black and Latinx. That’s despite an ambitious program…
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From local, network and state examples, from practitioners and researchers, we continue to learn about the importance of early learning experiences and find there to be great promise in existing…
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Parents have a lot on their minds when they send their children to child care. Will the child cry during drop-off, eat or skip a nap? But a new study…
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Researchers saw promising signs of a slow-moving rebound in student achievement this fall, more than a year after a dire spring where performance “bottomed out.” As U.S. students in August…
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Unlike most developed nations, America has never treated care of its youngest children as a public good worthy of significant public investment, especially in relation to K-12 public education. That’s…