Early Childhood Education

For parents of children with disabilities, child care shortages have always been a reality.

Child care faces a funding cliff as federal emergency funds expire, leading advocates to hope states will fill in the gap…

Employer-sponsored child care can alleviate worker’s child care stress, but it cannot solve the child care crisis.

States are spending more money and creating new incentives to ease the severe child care crisis…

Here’s what recent research tells us about the widespread benefits of spending on children. For employers Employers see benefits for their employees and businesses when families have child care and…

Home-based child care providers have been the “unsung heroes in the COVID-19 crisis,” as many stepped up to continue services despite nearly 40 percent of the child care workforce losing their…

It is well known by now that the pandemic has decimated the child care industry: at the end of last year, there were 166,800 fewer child care workers than the previous…

Early childhood care and education is essential for not just school readiness, but also life readiness of our youth.

A new study finds a strong correlation between the bonds homeless preschoolers form with teachers and their risk of behavioral and emotional problems. “It’s well established that children who are…

Small children are routinely punished in school by being pressured to withdraw or transfer, and Black preschoolers are disproportionately represented among those kicked out.

The Build Back Better bill has stalled. On one point, we agree with Senator Joe Manchin that it is time for Congress to start with a “clean sheet of paper” by evaluating…