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Mark Swartz

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.

Texas Kindergarten Teacher Reflects on What鈥檚 Driven Her to Spur Change

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How Early Stress Shapes the Developing Brain

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Why It鈥檚 Important for Young Children to Understand What鈥檚 Behind AI

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With the Child Poverty Rate Expected to Climb, New Efforts Emerge to Respond

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Inside the Race to Hire and Retain America鈥檚 Early Educators

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Raising Children During a Polycrisis: What Parents Can Do to Bring Up Resilient Kids

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With SNAP Cuts, This Federal Food Program May Become a Lifeline For Families

Mark Swartz

Child Care Scholarships Help Families Experiencing Sudden Household Disruptions

Mark Swartz

Bringing Head Start to College

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Orange County, California Pioneers Model to Help Cities Prioritize Kids Under 5

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Math Fellowship Rooted in Racial Justice Supports Early Educators

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Chelsea Clinton: Supporting Families Where They Are Matters for Early Childhood

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Early Childhood Innovation Center Shores Up Delaware’s Early Learning Workforce

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Why Early Educators鈥 Voices Matter

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How Medicaid Cuts Could Impact Early Intervention for Young Children

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Community Health Workers Can Play a Key Role in Keeping Families Healthy

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Engaging Local Leaders Is Key to Helping Young Children and Their Families Thrive

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Child Care Centers Embedded in Empty Classrooms Support Teachers, Schools

Mark Swartz

Early Educators and Child Care Providers Seek Legal Advice on Immigration

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A New Documentary Makes a Powerful Case for Early Education

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How Intergenerational Day Centers Benefit Children, Families, Seniors and Providers

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Big Ten Early Learning Alliance Shines a Light on Early Childhood Data Solutions

Mark Swartz

Philadelphia Pilot Program Pays Home-Based Child Care Providers $500 Every Month

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Philanthropic Partnership Aims to Expand Access to High-Quality Child Care

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How a Local Early Learning Collaborative Is Centering Belonging to Better Support Families With Young Children

Mark Swartz

鈥楥ollective Caregiving鈥: A New Way to Frame the Dialogue Around Better Supporting Kids and Families

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Simplicity, Visibility and Tangible Child Care Solutions: Q&A With Bainum Family Foundation鈥檚 Marica Cox Mitchell

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Coaching as Mutual Learning: How First Up Supports Philadelphia鈥檚 Child Care Workforce

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Care for All: Key Lessons for Child Advocates from the Broader $648 Billion Care Economy

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Agents in Their Own Learning

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5 Top Takeaways from the Conversation: From Access to Opportunity 鈥 The Magic of Children鈥檚 Books

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5 Top Takeaways from the CGLR Conversation: AI and the Early Childhood Workforce

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Breathing Free in Iowa

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5 Top Takeaways from the Child Trends Conversation: Next Generation Leadership for Black Child and Family Well-Being

Mark Swartz

How Crystal Rountree is Deepening the Cross-Generational Magic of Jumpstart

Mark Swartz

Summer Brain-Building Tips for Parents and Caregivers

Mark Swartz & Art Hondros

New Report: How Supercharging the Child Tax Credit Benefited Young Children, and What Comes Next

Mark Swartz

QUALITYstarsNY: Growing the Empire State鈥檚 Child Care Sector

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5 Top Takeaways from Start Early鈥檚 Advocacy & Policy Community of Practice Webinar

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The U.N.鈥檚 International Day of Play vs. 鈥楢n Inhuman World鈥

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Enjoying 鈥榯he Pleasure of Chaos鈥 with Duane Michals

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New Report: Convergence鈥檚 鈥業n This Together鈥 Offers Framework for Families with Children

Mark Swartz

Faith-Based Child Care Activism in Minnesota: Because Kids Count on Us

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A 100-Year Review of Research on Black Families

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The Spirit of the Studio: A Reggio Emilia Concept Takes Root in America

Mark Swartz

Virginia (Finally) Embraces Kinship Care

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways from the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading Webinar: Philanthropy and Public Financing for Children

Mark Swartz

What Inspires You to Work on Behalf of Young Children?

Mark Swartz & Art Hondros

Baratunde Thurston 鈥 鈥楬ost of How to Citizen鈥 and 鈥楢merica Outdoors鈥 鈥 Offers Insights from Interpersonal to Global

Mark Swartz

鈥楾his Is Our Moment鈥: Six Bank Street Policy Fellows Share Their Strategies

Mark Swartz

Partnership for America鈥檚 Children Nurtures a New Generation of Advocates and Leaders

Mark Swartz

From Blueprint to Blue Ribbon: How Franklin County, OH Is Using Rescue Plan Dollars to Stabilize 鈥 and Revitalize 鈥 Child Care

Mark Swartz

Extending the Experience: Digital Promise鈥檚 Approach to Technology

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways from the Center for Health Journalism鈥檚 Discussion: 鈥楧angerous Deliveries: the Spread of America鈥檚 Maternity Care Deserts鈥

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Ahead of the Game: How the American Rescue Plan Act Rescued One Maryland Family Care Program, and What Comes Next

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5 Top Takeaways: Chelsea Clinton Moderates the 鈥楢 Healthy Childhood in a Changing Climate鈥 Conversation at Harvard Graduate School of Education

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Play Is a Child鈥檚 Search for Meaning: Q&A with Brenda Fyfe

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New Report Shows There鈥檚 Room for Improvement in Navigating a More Equitable Arizona

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Robin Hood鈥檚 Child Care Quality and Innovation Initiative: 鈥淭here Is No Better Investment鈥

Mark Swartz

The Re-Education of Uch茅 Blackstock, the Doctor Disrupting ‘Medical Apartheid’

Mark Swartz

Paying Up: Enhancing Child Care Compensation Systems in Colorado, D.C. and Louisiana

Mark Swartz

Kim Janey鈥檚 Systemic Approach to Supporting Bostonians and Families Nationwide

Mark Swartz

ParentCorps Builds Relationships from the Ground Up

Mark Swartz

Child Development Associate Credential Opens a Career Path, Serving the Child Care Industry

Mark Swartz

7 Reasons to Be Encouraged about the Planet Our Children Are Inheriting

Mark Swartz

Lost in the Policy Woods? Finding Your Way to Equity and Access with the Zaentz Navigator

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways From the Hunt Institute Conversation: The Men of Early Learning

Mark Swartz

The 2023 Prenatal-to-3 State Policy Roadmap Report Illuminates Conditions in Ohio and Around the Country

Mark Swartz

What It Takes to Nurture 鈥楲ittle Leaders鈥: Reflections from a Family Child Care Provider in the Bronx

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways From New America鈥檚 Better Life Lab Webinar: Transforming How America Cares

Mark Swartz

What Are You Thankful For?

Mark Swartz & Art Hondros

Unleashing the Potential of Young Dual Language Learners

Mark Swartz

Mississippi鈥檚 ‘Miracle’: Fourth Grade Reading Scores Keep Climbing. Is Early Learning the Reason?

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways From the ‘New Lens on Poverty’ Conversation Hosted by the Harvard Center on the Developing Child

Mark Swartz

NAEYC鈥檚 Michelle Kang: Empowering ‘the Workforce behind the Workforce’

Mark Swartz

Back and Forth: Talking with Author Rebecca Rolland about Talking with Children

Mark Swartz

Top 10 Takeaways from Conversations with Alliance for Early Success, Elephant Circle and the Black Mamas Matter Alliance

Mark Swartz

Two Early Educators Participating in an Early Childhood Fellowship Share Their Stories

Mark Swartz

Top Takeaways From a Fireside Chat on the Future of Child Care

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways from a Webinar From Trust for Learning and All Our Kin on Educator-Led Movement Building

Mark Swartz

‘Dolly Is the Book Lady’: The Imagination Library鈥檚 Journey in Three States

Mark Swartz

More Than Meets the Eye: Jeremiah Program鈥檚 Chastity Lord

Mark Swartz

Building Equity by Building Playgrounds

Mark Swartz

Book Review: Why and How to Abolish the Child Welfare System

Mark Swartz

Inspiring Educators with No Borders Between Play and Learning at the Center for Playful Inquiry

Mark Swartz

Dignity and Inclusion: Kendra Davenport on Revitalizing Easterseals鈥 Core Values

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways From the Hunt Institute鈥檚 Technology in Early Childhood Discussion

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‘A Loving Approach’: Q & A with the Children鈥檚 Bureau鈥檚 Aysha E. Schomburg

Mark Swartz

‘What Brings Your Child Joy?’ How Oregon Is Reinventing the Kindergarten Transition

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5 Top Takeaways: Child Care Lessons Learned from the Pandemic

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5 Top Takeaways From ‘A New Generation of Early Childhood Leaders,’ a Conversation Hosted by CAYL

Mark Swartz

Tim Gill and Ankita Chachra Discuss How and Why Cities of the Future Can Work Better for Children

Mark Swartz

Can Play 鈥楲evel the Playing Field鈥 in Chicago?

Mark Swartz

The Children鈥檚 School in Pittsburgh: Where It鈥檚 Hard to Tell Play, Learning and Work Apart

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5 Top Takeaways: Following the Science on Bilingualism

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways From an Abt Associates Learning Session: Increasing Pay for Child Care Workers

Mark Swartz

Pediatrician Mona Hanna-Attisha鈥檚 Vision of ‘What We Can Do Next’

Mark Swartz

RAPID Goes Local: Community-Specific Content for Community-Specific Needs

Mark Swartz

An Interview With Kelly Fradin, Author of ‘Advanced Parenting’

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways From a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Webinar: Closing the Opportunity Gap for Young Children

Mark Swartz

The Early Learning Teacher Corps: A Public Service Innovation in Louisiana

Mark Swartz

All Our Kin: Fortifying Family Child Care 鈥 and Families

Mark Swartz

A Day Trip to Philadelphia Shows What Playful Learning Is 鈥 and Isn鈥檛

Mark Swartz

New Step-by-Step Activity Guide Helps Adults Discuss Race with Young Children

Mark Swartz

Escaping the Policy Labyrinth with New America鈥檚 New Practice Lab

Mark Swartz

How to Make Mother鈥檚 Day 2023 One for the Ages

Mark Swartz & Art Hondros

5 Top Takeaways: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Indian Child Welfare Act

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways From a Webinar on Mixed Delivery

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Book Review: Getting Me Cheap: How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty

Mark Swartz

Rhythm, Blues and the Revolutionary Power of Creativity

Mark Swartz

‘A Sense of Urgency Like Never Before’: Dismantling Racist Systems with Leah Austin

Mark Swartz

Liz Ogbu鈥檚 Joyful Euphoria

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Erikson Institute鈥檚 New, Fully Funded Master鈥檚 Program for Educators of Color in Chicago

Mark Swartz

The Power of First 10 Partnerships: 3 Examples

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The Power of First 10 Partnerships

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Harvard鈥檚 Nonie Lesaux on the Long and Winding Road to High-Quality, Universal Child Care

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Bank Street鈥檚 New Policy Fellowship Aims for Equity and Quality

Mark Swartz

Better Communities Collaborative Supports Families and Communities

Mark Swartz

‘Children Learn What They Live’: Building Empathy in Marin County

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways from a Conversation About Racial Disparities in Maternal and Infant Health Hosted by The Hunt Institute

Mark Swartz

Investing in New Systems for Paying Educators What They Need and Deserve

Mark Swartz

FUEL for Asylum Seekers and Their Children

Mark Swartz

Not Just Another Museum Visit: A New Program Lets Incarcerated Parents Experience CMOM with Their Children

Mark Swartz

Author Bruce Perry and the Neuroscience Insights We Need Today

Mark Swartz

An Environmental Health Scientist鈥檚 Recipe for Giving the Next Generation a Safe Future

Mark Swartz

Book Review: Children’s Health and The Peril of Climate Change

Mark Swartz

Bilingualism Is a Resource, Not a Disability. Education Professionals Need to Follow the Science.

Mark Swartz

Learning and Growing with Khan Academy Kids

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ELSI: Oregon鈥檚 Higher Education Partner for Early Education

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WeeSubsidy: A New Way to Balance Child Care Market Forces

Mark Swartz

The Early Childhood Workforce in Lafayette, Louisiana Wants Pay, Benefits and R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways from a New Publication and a Brookings Webinar on Single-Parent Families

Mark Swartz

A New Year of Reflection, Impact and Equity

Mark Swartz & Art Hondros

5 Top Takeaways: Hunt Institute and Alliance for Early Success Explore Big Wins for Little Kids

Mark Swartz

The Next Steps for First Steps Kent

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A New Coalition Promotes Children’s Self-Esteem and Expanded Worldviews through Diverse Books

Mark Swartz

Neurons and Neighborhoods in the Nation鈥檚 Capital

Mark Swartz

Giving Thanks: Early Childhood Leaders and Educators Express Their Gratitude

Mark Swartz & Art Hondros

6 Top Takeaways from the Launch of the Stanford Center on Early Learning

Mark Swartz

For Children and the Climate, the Future Is Now

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways from the Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center鈥檚 Summit

Mark Swartz

Elliot Haspel Is Building Bridges between Early Childhood and Climate Change

Mark Swartz & Elliot Haspel

Faith-Based Child Care: Stories from Michigan

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways from the Children鈥檚 Movement of Florida鈥檚 Born to Thrive Annual Summit

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Squaring Up with History: Child Trends鈥 Chrishana Lloyd and Julianna Carlson Dig Deep on the Value of Care

Mark Swartz

For Families and Children, a Champion for Democracy and ‘Constructive Disagreements’

Mark Swartz

Using Design Thinking to Reimagine the Child Development Associate Credential

Mark Swartz

Chronicling a Social Catastrophe, So We Can Prepare Better for the Next One

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways from a Webinar on Bringing Dolly Parton鈥檚 Library to Every West Virginia County

Mark Swartz

Book Review: ‘The Stolen Year’ by Anya Kamenetz: Heart-Wrenching, Heart-Warming Stories of Children in the Pandemic

Mark Swartz

Montessori and Equity: Rising to New Challenges

Mark Swartz

New Ascend Fellows Announced at the Aspen Institute

Mark Swartz

Maria Montessori Myth Busting

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Maria Montessori鈥檚 Influence on Early Education

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Susan Neuman鈥檚 Unbound Ambitions

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Lynette Johnson鈥檚 Appetite for Food Justice

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5 Top Takeaways from the Conversation: Strengthening Systems by Embedding Equity when Defining Quality

Mark Swartz

Free Anti-Stress Kit Brings H.E.L.P. for Stressed-Out, Burned-Out Educators and Families

Mark Swartz

3 Top Takeaways from a Hunt Institute Webinar About Ideal Learning Environments

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Voices and Visions for Transformative Change from Child Care NEXT

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Book Review: The Emotionally Intelligent Child

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3 Top Takeaways from Mobilizers Leading a Quiet Revolution in Child Care

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Sal Khan and His Planet-Saving Academy

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5 Top Takeaways from the Hunt Institute’s 鈥楽hared Services鈥 Webinar

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The Early Years Climate Action Task Force: ‘A Natural and Necessary Focus’

Mark Swartz

Not a Moment Too Soon: A New Network Offers Promise for Our Broken Child Care Picture

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7 Insights for Teaching and Serving Our Youngest Immigrants

Mark Swartz

Three Zaentz Fellows Look Forward to Sparking Systemic Change

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How Two Zaentz Fellows Are Adapting to 鈥 and Shaping 鈥 the Early Education Landscape

Mark Swartz

We Asked Some Men We Admire: What鈥檚 Your Challenge to American Dads?

Mark Swartz & Art Hondros

Gordon Hartman鈥檚 ‘Ultra-Accessible’ Ambitions

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Unleashing the Learning Potential of Latino Infants

Mark Swartz

The Quality Trap: The Movement to Reconsider QRIS

Mark Swartz

‘Clarissa鈥檚 Battle’ and the Campaign for Child Care Subsidies

Mark Swartz

Turning New York City Into an Early Learning Metropolis

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways from the Investing in Child Care Careers Webinar

Mark Swartz

‘Reading Prepares You for Your Destiny:’ 5 Literacy and Life Lessons from Darryl McDaniels

Mark Swartz

An Interview with Dana Suskind: ‘When a Group Speaks with One Voice, Society Listens’

Mark Swartz

An Interview with Dana Suskind: ‘Extreme Situations Can Be Clarifying’

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5 Top Takeaways from Connecticut鈥檚 Morning Without Child Care Webinar

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New Orleans Coalition Pushes for Child Care Measure with Multigenerational Effect

Mark Swartz

Groceries, Diapers and Love: How One Organization Supports Families in Kentucky

Mark Swartz

Book Review: A Surgeon鈥檚 Road Map to a ‘Parent Nation’

Mark Swartz

Alabama Child Care Activist Lenice Emanuel Speaks Her Truth

Mark Swartz

Wyoming鈥檚 Long Main Street: Connection and Cohesion in the Cowboy State

Mark Swartz

The Indigenous Early Learning Collaborative鈥檚 Change Mentality

Mark Swartz

The Wheels on the Bus: Save the Children鈥檚 Mobile Education and Nutrition Units

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways from the Nurturing Developing Minds Conference

Mark Swartz

‘One Big Learning Adventure’ with Noggin Knows Host Emmanuel Carter

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Meet Two of Robin Hood鈥檚 FUEL for 50 Pioneers

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5 Top Takeaways: How Children鈥檚 Literature Is Getting More Diverse, and Why That Matters

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Thirty Years after Her Gold Medal, Kristi Yamaguchi Reflects on Parenthood, Competition and Kindness

Mark Swartz

Caregiver Conversations: The Parent Voices Study Demonstrates Why ‘Participatory Research’ Matters

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Behind the Music: 鈥楤ig Heart World鈥 Seconds That Emotion

Mark Swartz

Building Life-Giving Places with Majora Carter

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Book Review: Reclaiming Your Community 鈥 You Don鈥檛 Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One

Mark Swartz

Ready Ready: An Early Childhood ‘Backbone’ in North Carolina

Mark Swartz

The Rapid-EC Survey Project: Listening to Families, Collecting the Evidence to Support Change

Mark Swartz

Bringing Unlicensed Care out of the Shadows

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Great Beginnings in the Great Plains: Communities for Kids Builds Nebraska鈥檚 Child Care Infrastructure, Cultivates All Community Stakeholders

Mark Swartz

A Way Forward for Preschool for All in Washington State 鈥 and Beyond

Mark Swartz

Experts Look Ahead to Explore ‘What in the Early Learning World gives you hope for 2022?’

Mark Swartz & Art Hondros

When Head Start Parents Become Head Start Teachers

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways from The Hunt Institute鈥檚 Early Efforts Webinar: Big Wins for Little Kids

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A New Start for New Mexico鈥檚 Native Families

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The Early Learning Community Shows Its Gratitude

Mark Swartz & Art Hondros

‘How Is My Baby Doing, and How Am I Doing as a Parent?’

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‘Value Disorganization and Vulnerability as an Opportunity’

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Supermodel and Grandmother Kathy Ireland on Living Your Values

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Collective Ownership: A Community Child Care Solution

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways from a Hunt Institute Webinar Exploring the Legacy of the Abecedarian Project

Mark Swartz

First and Goal: How Malcolm Mitchell Unleashes the Potential of Early Literacy

Mark Swartz

Philadelphia鈥檚 Soda Tax Shows Promise As Allocations for Pre-K Outperform Expectations

Mark Swartz

Affirmation and Celebration: New Report Offers Recommendations for Supporting Multilingual Preschool-Age Children during the Pandemic

Mark Swartz

Martha鈥檚 Vineyard: Child Care Solutions for a Picturesque Locale

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Changing the World through Capitalism: Maxine Clark鈥檚 Advice for Business Leaders

Mark Swartz

Word by Word: Reach Every Reader Offers Fun New Apps, a Home Screening Tool and More

Mark Swartz

Working from Home, Child Care Provider Champions Paid Leave in Her Spare Time

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5 Top Takeaways from a Hunt Institute Webinar on Home Visiting Programs and the Pandemic

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Personal Business: Emily Oster鈥檚 New Book Runs the Numbers on Young Kids

Mark Swartz

National Women鈥檚 Law Center鈥檚 #WeAretheBackbone Campaign Gives Voice to Child Care Workers

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways from a Capita Webinar: Should We Have A Constitutional Amendment for Children?

Mark Swartz

Child-Driven Child Literacy: Raising A Reader鈥檚 Latest Chapter

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5 Top Takeaways from Multnomah County鈥檚 Preschool Victory Research Report Release Event

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Good and Good for You: Ellie Krieger鈥檚 5 Food Tips for Children and Families

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce #TalentForward Child Care Webinar

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How Three YMCAs Are Helping Their Communities Build Stronger Systems For All

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Reshma Saujani, Founder of Girls Who Code and Marshall Plan for Moms Galvanizes People Around Ideas

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways from Promise Venture Studio鈥檚 Show+Tell: Equity Ventures in Early Education

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5 Top Takeaways from a New Ventures Show+Tell on Advancing Birth Equity and Justice

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New upEND Publication Calls for Fundamental Transformation of Family Policing

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways from the Reagan Institute Summit on Education

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Caring Arizona: An Innovative Program Offers Targeted Support for Informal Caregivers

Mark Swartz

Historic Crisis, Historic Opportunity: New ECE Research Looks Back and Ahead

Mark Swartz

Little Free Libraries: Sharing a Love of Reading, Building Brains and Communities

Mark Swartz

How a ‘Pathbreaking Model’ from New Jersey Could Support Early Education Equity

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Book Review: When You Wonder, You鈥檙e Learning

Mark Swartz

Minnesota鈥檚 Early Education Scholarships: Access, Choice and Quality

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways from the Conversation: Through the Eyes of Children 鈥 Looking at Cities with Tim Gill

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Strolling Thunder Advocacy: Showing People the 鈥榃hy鈥

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Eliminating Structural Inequities in Workforce Preparation

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Making It Work in Iowa: Professionalizing the Child Care Workforce Means Paying Providers Like Professionals

Mark Swartz

Helping U.S. Cities Shift to a Dignity Economy

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7 Top Takeaways from Kathy Hirsh-Pasek鈥檚 Talk on ‘Reimagining Education’

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‘A Marriage of True Minds’: Start Early and the Early Learning Lab

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4 Top Takeaways from a Conversation About Early Learning in Virginia: Loss and Opportunity

Mark Swartz

What Do American Mothers Deserve This Mother’s Day?

Mark Swartz & Art Hondros

The Rise of the Rural Library Network: A New Resource for Librarians and Children

Mark Swartz

The Bridgeport Baby Bundle: Thinking in Systems, Not Programs

Mark Swartz

Oskar Eustis: Welcoming America Onstage

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways from a Fireside Chat: ‘A Moment to Think Creatively’

Mark Swartz

The History of the American Rescue Plan鈥檚 Child Provisions and What it Means for Cutting Child Poverty

Mark Swartz

Playful Learning in Pittsburgh: The Park as a Classroom

Mark Swartz

New Public Education Project Brings Together a Robust, Bipartisan Coalition to Capture the Child Care Moment

Mark Swartz

Lessons from the History of Children鈥檚 Television, the Original Distance Learning

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A Golden Opportunity for Early Childhood Apprenticeships

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Boosting California鈥檚 Early Childhood Capacity

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What Do Young Children Know about Race? You Might Be Surprised.

Mark Swartz

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: A Child Of Television Explores History to Illuminate Ancestry, Cultural Influences and Social Justice

Mark Swartz

4 Top Takeaways from the Social Entrepreneurs Show + Tell

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3 Top Takeaways from a Brookings Institution Event: Three Trimesters to Three Years

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Reach Out and Read: Beyond the Book

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Top Takeaways: The Science Is Clear. Let鈥檚 Make It Official through Policy

Mark Swartz

Pacesetter Communities Race for Children鈥檚 Literacy in Florida, North Carolina and Iowa

Mark Swartz

The Long-Term Damage of Child Hunger 鈥 and What We Can Do to Prevent It

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways from the Webinar ‘From Research to Reality: A Funder Conversation about Policy’

Mark Swartz

Asking Big Questions in Kansas to Guide Decision-Making for Early Learning Communities, Providers and Parents

Mark Swartz

3 Top Takeaways from the Conversation: The Impact of Politics on Early Childhood in 2021

Mark Swartz

Hopes for 2021: Brain Building, Racial Equity, Policies that Serve Children and Families, Kindness, Daily Walks

Mark Swartz & Art Hondros

5 Top Takeaways from NLC鈥檚 Virtual City Summit

Mark Swartz

Chicago Hope: New Documentary Celebrates the Educare Model

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways from a Roundtable Discussion About Rural America鈥檚 Child Care Challenges

Mark Swartz

Freed Advocate Yigit Aksakoglu Reflects on His ZERO TO THREE Fellowship

Mark Swartz

Bank Street Makes the Case for Compensation

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways from a Webinar on Local Matters: What Political Newcomers Need to Know

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways from a Conversation About Racism in the Child Care Industry

Mark Swartz

3 Top Takeaways from Playful Learning Playbook: A New Resource for the Serious Business of Play

Mark Swartz

Mindfulness and Young Children: Six Resources for Beginners and Skeptics

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Operating All the Levers

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Top Takeaways from the Pop-Up Show + Tell: The Promise of Social and Emotional Learning

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Five Top Takeaways from The Hunt Institute鈥檚 Conversation on Developmentally Appropriate Practice During the Pandemic and Beyond

Mark Swartz

Top Takeaways from a Campaign for Grade-Level Reading Conversation: Telenovela as Teacher

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Mighty, Mighty Bosses

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Top Takeaways from the Early Childhood Coalitions Panel at ZERO TO THREE Conference

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Racial Equity for Early Childhood Professionals: Four Takeaways

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Jessica Meir鈥檚 Five Rules for Being a Good Earthling

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Our Child Care Facilities Are in Crisis But There Are Solutions

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5 Top Takeaways from the Webinar ‘A Path for Every State’

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‘Invest in Families Instead’: A Renewed Call to Divest the Child Welfare System

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways: Hop to It 鈥 A New PBS Kids Program Celebrates Science

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Alaska Calling: Molly of Denali鈥檚 Native Smarts

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5 Top Takeaways: Early Childhood Philanthropic Leaders Discuss Deploying Risk Capital

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Top Takeaways From the NHSA Policy Webinar Series: Building Resilient Head Start Systems through State Partnerships

Mark Swartz

A New Documentary Makes the Case for Investment in Early Childhood Education

Mark Swartz

Making the Bipartisan Case for Child Care: the Industry that Keeps America Working

Mark Swartz

Funny Strange or Funny Ha Ha? For Teacher of the Year Tabatha Rosproy, It鈥檚 Both

Mark Swartz

3 Top Takeaways from the Conversation: Designing Everyday Places to Play and Learn

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5 Top Takeaways: Early Childhood Philanthropy Now

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Top Takeaways from an Educare Webinar About Pandemic Responses in Three Cities

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5 Top Takeaways From a Conversation About Mississippi鈥檚 Education Turnaround

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Early Childhood Connector: Ounce of Prevention Creates Systems-Based Solutions for Building Early Learning Communities

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5 Takeaways from the 2020 Texas Fatherhood Fridays Summit

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Going Big for Our Youngest with Jim Steyer

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Kyle Zimmer Builds Community of Educators on Frontlines of Economic and Educational Justice

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Synchronized Movement: The Story Behind a Prizewinning Video on Preschool Behavior

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The Connection between Maternal Health and Infant Health: Asking the Difficult Questions

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Children First: What a ‘Values-Based Budget’ Looks Like

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Beyond the Headlines: Separation and Detention of Immigrant Children

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Planes, Trains & Automobiles: 7 Summer Brain-Building Travel Tips from Child Development Experts

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Act Naturally: The Benefits of Wet Hands and Muddy Feet

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