For the first time, a California governor has created a position in his office focused on early education. Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Giannina Pérez as his Senior Policy Advisor for Early Childhood.

To address the flaws in the childcare market, conservatives should place parental choice and pluralism at the forefront of their early childhood agenda. Improving the market for childcare should ...

In the United States, young children attend programs that most refer to as “daycares” or “child cares,” staffed by people that many think of as “workers.” That has to change, argues author Dan Wuori ...

In the nonprofit preschools to be operated by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ new Day 1 Academies Fund, he says, “the child will be the customer.” Does that stance reflect a market-driven approach to improving ...

America’s young children and families are facing historic challenges and possibilities. Families are confronting long-standing barriers to opportunity, and also challenges related to a global pandemic ...

Eleven preschoolers are scattered throughout a classroom at Shawash-iliʔi Skul, an immersion school run by the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde in northwestern Oregon, chattering away, but not just ...

Language acquisition in early childhood represents a fundamental aspect of human cognitive development, where children rapidly transform acoustic signals into a rich, structured linguistic system.

“I’ve had my knees replaced. It’s some genetic, but also the work I do. I’m up and down, up and down, up and down all the time. I recently had a rib out of place so I went to therapy and was out of ...

When preschool children ask questions about science they risk being left in the lurch by their teachers. Learning seems to have less of a focus among preschool teachers, despite what is laid down in ...

Improving early childhood development parenting practices and nutrition is a critical first step in preparing children for school and productive working lives. With nearly 80 percent of Madagascar’s ...

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, alarming attrition and turnover in the early education workforce has gotten even worse. Prior to the pandemic, turnover in the field was already as high as 30 ...