1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1034+ words) Emily Tate Sullivan is a contract early care and education correspondent at The 74. By Emily Tate Sullivan Several years into California’s robust expansion of public transitional kindergarten, private preschool providers are facing challenges that could ultimately upend care for young…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (522+ words) Carlos Curbelo is a former Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida. He serves on the board of directors of the Coalition to Empower our Future. Steve Bullock served as the 24th Governor of Montana. He serves on the…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (418+ words) Meghan McCormick is research and impact officer at Overdeck Family Foundation. Carly Robinson is a postdoctoral research associate at Brown University’s Annenberg Institute for School Reform. By Meghan McCormick & Carly Robinson Artificial intelligence-based tutoring programs promise something schools have long…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (486+ words) Eboni Delaney is director of policy and movement building at the National Association for Family Child Care, and a public voices fellow of the OpEd Project in partnership with the National Black Child Development Institute. I am a product of…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (882+ words) Amanda Geduld is a staff reporter at The 74. This March, Mary Ellen Lykins, a director of 10 Head Start centers serving around 200 kids in northwest Washington, submitted a seemingly simple application to the federal government: She wanted to convert one of…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (284+ words) Ayisha Irfan is founder and CEO of Augmented Intelligence Advisory, a software and advisory company that helps K-12 schools teach students to think alongside AI rather than outsource their thinking to it. On the second day, one of the teens was…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (548+ words) Katy Neas is chief executive officer of The Arc of the United States, a national nonprofit organization advocating for and supporting people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. The federal government last week proposed sweeping changes to Head…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (1387+ words) Emily Tate Sullivan is a contract early care and education correspondent at The 74. Amanda Geduld is a staff reporter at The 74. By Emily Tate Sullivan & Amanda Geduld Most of Cassie Reed’s life has been marked by instability. During her childhood,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (340+ words) Mark Swartz writes about efforts to improve early care and education as well as developments in the U.S. care economy. He lives in Maryland. As book bans surge nationwide, Jan Lacina — professor at Texas Christian University and associate editor of the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (599+ words) Kristin Spanos is chief executive officer of First 5 Alameda County. In 2020, voters in California’s Alameda County made a remarkable decision. Rather than accept generations of underinvestment in young children, they chose to build something families had never truly had: an…...