Early Childhood Education

This story was originally published by The 19th.For more than a decade, Erin Farias has watched the low-income families who send children to the day …

Young children in a classroom leased by Head Start at a community college. (Photo by Maansi Srivastava, The Washington Post) “Lack of child …

The early childhood field is in the very early stages of trying out artificial intelligence for tasks such as classroom observations…

Throughout the pandemic, our communities saw the loss of a significant number of child care facilities, as public health actions, falling enrollment, and rising safety costs all took their toll.…

Experts and disability justice advocates say these changes could help more California families with children who have complex medical needs access the care they‘re entitled to.

North Carolina advocates are particularly worried about programs’ ability to remain open and accessible as federal funds end.

America’s relative lack of investment in child care disproportionately hurts Black educators, children and families. Pre-pandemic, there was limited availability of affordable options; new closures will deepen the challenges.

The pandemic has proved in the starkest of terms the importance of childcare and preschool programs. Working parents have overnight found their childcare upended as capacity and hours shrunk or…

Supportive, stable caregiving during childhood can protect heart health in adulthood, a new study finds.

California and New Mexico offer two examples of child care advocacy that ended in better pay and treatment for the underpaid workforce…

To support the struggling child care sector during and after the pandemic, Congress dedicated billions in child care relief funding under the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). The LISC Child Care and Early Learning team explores how minor but important changes in the administration of ARPA funding…

America’s very youngest citizens are hardly immune from the inequities exposed —and, in some cases, worsened — by the pandemic. And for infants and toddlers, the consequences could be particularly…