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 ...

Roughly 1 in 5 children in the United States are estimated to be neurodivergent, with a range of learning and thinking differences. Those differences have nothing to do with intelligence—but derive ...

The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. In the thick of the ...

This is an important contribution that largely confirms prior evidence that word recognition - a cornerstone of development - improves across early childhood and is related to vocabulary growth. This ...

According to the most recent Flash I Report, 2081 (2024/25), the total number of out-of-school children at the basic level (Grades 1–8) is significant: approximately 122,686 girls and 129,709 boys.

A neural network trained on the experiences of a single young child managed to learn one of the core components of language: how to match words to the objects they represent. Human babies are far ...

The more time students spent in remote instruction, the further they fell behind. And, experts say, extended closures did little to stop the spread of Covid. By Sarah Mervosh Claire Cain Miller and ...

In my previous posts, we explored why summer feels so boring for kids and why traditional activity lists often make the problem worse. Today, I want to dive deeper into what child-led learning ...