Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. At 13 years old, Mary Sheedy Kurcinka knew what she wanted to do with her life. She had read ...

Tiaja Gundy was just 19 years old when she started working at Federal Hill House, an early learning center in Providence, Rhode Island. It was 2016, and back then, she lacked experience and expertise ...

Reporter Emily Tate Sullivan has been writing about early care and education since 2019. In this essay, she describes how, this year, she began living it.

Before the pandemic, a majority of U.S. children between 3 and 5 were not on track to meet their learning milestones and there's growing evidence that the isolation of the past year has made outcomes ...

LAKELAND — On the brightest blue-sky morning, as Lake Morton’s regal birds glided along nearby, children from First United Methodist Church’s First Steps program gathered to hear Hans Christian ...

There is a critical need to better understand the components of high-quality early childhood education programs to ensure policy solutions adequately support and promote access to quality for all ...