In northeast Nebraska, the lack of affordable, accessible child care is pushing parents out of the workforce and making it harder for businesses to hire. A new employer-backed initiative in Norfolk ...

The Family Success Center at the Catherine Hershey School, where parents receive individual coaching toward goals and can access resources like books and educational materials. Credit: Jackie Mader ...

While it might be tempting to view “active learning” as another educational buzzword, a large body of research demonstrates that active and collaborative classrooms produce deeper and more ...

The Center for American Progress has developed a data dashboard that allows users to explore national- and state-level data trends on a range of child care and early learning topics, including access ...

A child plays with chalk during the Our Babies 1st: Restore the Pay Equity Fund rally at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., on May 13, 2024. (Getty/Jemal Countess) This report accompanies the first ...

This week, we’re bringing you stories about what it costs to raise a child in 2025, and how families are making it work. Child care in America is broken. Working parents with young children are ...

Indrani Dey is a PhD student in Learning Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying under Dr. Sadhana Puntambekar. At iSAT, she works with Dr. Puntambekar to investigate how students’ ...

There’s a dizzying array of childhood programs, schools and child-care options — all with slightly different names and definitions — which can be confusing to parents trying to make decisions about ...