When it comes to caring for and educating children in the United States, Black grandmothers have never been on the sidelines. Since the end of enslavement and the beginning of Reconstruction, through the Civil rights movement and beyond, Black grandmas have acted as a family and community glue, giving care, building and maintaining social and kinship ties, and raising children. But today, the nature of their caregiving, and the systems and pressures Black grandmas must...
Cast in America as a pay-to-play system with limited public funding, child care has long struggled with issues like difficult budgetary math, low educator pay, and highly variable quality. An unprecedented degree of investor activity is creating a cascade of risks for the sector, risks which threaten the path toward an inclusive child care system which works well for all children, parents, and early educators.
Gas, Groceries, Homeownership Opportunities and Kids’ Extracurriculars
What D.C.’s Early Childhood Educators Stand to Lose with the D.C. Pay Equity Fund Salary Cuts
Briyana Holloway remembers the shock when she saw her new paycheck. It was January 2024, and the Early Childhood Pay Equity Fund had given child...
Home-based child care is a fact of life in the U.S. On any given day, millions of children spend their days—sometimes their nights—in family child...
My conversation with the Center for Playful Inquiry’s Susan Harris MacKay and Matt Karlsen ignited an intense curiosity about how early learning spaces might become...
When it comes to caring for and educating children in the United States, Black grandmothers have never been on the sidelines. Since the end of enslavement and the beginning of Reconstruction, through the Civil rights movement and beyond, Black grandmas have acted as a family and community glue, giving care,...
Cast in America as a pay-to-play system with limited public funding, child care has long struggled with issues like difficult budgetary math, low educator pay, and highly variable quality. An unprecedented degree of investor activity is creating a cascade of risks for the sector, risks which threaten the path toward an inclusive child care system which works well for all children, parents, and early educators.
Gas, Groceries, Homeownership Opportunities and Kids’ Extracurriculars
What D.C.’s Early Childhood Educators Stand to Lose with the D.C. Pay Equity Fund Salary Cuts
Briyana Holloway remembers the shock when she saw her new paycheck. It was January 2024, and the Early Childhood Pay Equity Fund had given child...
Home-based child care is a fact of life in the U.S. On any given day, millions of children spend their days—sometimes their nights—in family child...
My conversation with the Center for Playful Inquiry’s Susan Harris MacKay and Matt Karlsen ignited an intense curiosity about how early learning spaces might become...
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When we hear the word, “lullaby,” most of us imagine something like the dictionary definition of “a gentle, quiet song that lulls a child to sleep,” a cradle song to soothe a baby’s way to the Land of Nod. For the past 12 years, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute has been refining that definition with its Lullaby Project.
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