Early childhood care and education, covering the period from birth to 8 years of age, is crucial because it leverages a time of significant brain development in children. Quality early childhood care ...

Early childhood care and education, covering the period from birth to 8 years of age, is crucial because it leverages a time of significant brain development in children. Quality early childhood care ...

Early childhood education is the time from when a child is born until they start kindergarten. Early childhood education includes not only teaching little ones how to walk and talk, but how to ...

While COVID has meaningfully impacted our K-12 and higher education systems in the U.S., the early years have arguably been even more challenged. Child care supply has been decimated and parents of ...

During this period, roughly covering ages 3 to 5, a child’s personality, interests, and social orientation begin to come into focus, but parents should keep in mind that personality traits, personal ...

The preschool years present a critical developmental period sensitive to changes in public health and social policy, for which robust investments in programs that support families can improve ...

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 ...