Early Childhood Education

Canada’s new subsidized child care initiative shows what it takes to improve a child care system across a country…

Community foundations need federal cooperation to address childcare—not as an individual family issue but as an economic crisis affecting working women.

Norvell: Modernization and capacity management at state agencies could be first step in easing parents’ challenges.

As many as 70,000 child care centers are projected to close in the next several months as pandemic-era federal funding ends, pushing an industry already in crisis to a breaking point.

A ‘dire situation’: Child care programs are struggling to survive as pandemic-era funding ends…

NPR’s Michel Martin talks to Julie Morita of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a philanthropic organization focused on health, about the looming expiration of federal child care funding.

I became an early childhood teacher because, like so many others, I dream of making abundant, equitable access to high-quality early childhood …

From the establishment of “child care-friendly landlords” to the construction of low-cost homes earmarked specifically for home-based providers, projects are underway to offer a salve to providers struggling to find and afford adequate housing.

The fact that much of rural America is a “child care desert” has far-reaching implications for the families, children and care providers directly affected—but also for regional and national economic health and wellbeing.

Lewis: What schools can do to help student-parents earn a degree and get a leg up on the socioeconomic ladder.

A recent survey of Jewish preschool teachers shows that they are paid far less than their K-12 peers. What should the Jewish community do about it?

With rising housing costs, pushback from landlords and homeowners associations, and a complex web of regulations, it’s a wonder home-based providers …