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04 Mar

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The New York Times
March 1, 2025
By Brian Goldstone
At 10 p.m., a hospital technician pulls into a Walmart parking lot. Her four kids — one still nursing — are packed into the back of her Toyota. She tells them it’s an adventure, but she’s terrified someone will call the police: “Inadequate housing” is enough to lose your children. She stays awake for hours, lavender scrubs folded in the trunk, listening for footsteps, any sign of trouble. Her shift starts soon. She’ll...

26 Feb

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The Mercury News
February 26, 2025
By Jeff Collins
Presley Wilson’s priorities shifted from college to finding a new home after she got booted from her studio apartment in the middle of her first semester at Cal State Long Beach. Homelessness loomed for the transfer student when her financial aid package arrived too late to keep her from falling behind on her rent. Then, three weeks before she had to leave her apartment, a university case worker located a slot in a state-funded program designed...

13 Feb

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Vox
February 13, 2025
By Anna North
It’s preschool application season in New York City, where I live. That means parents of toddlers are eagerly and anxiously signing on to a (surprisingly user-friendly) city-run website and ranking their preferred programs, in the hopes that, come fall, their 3- and 4-year-olds will be able to go to a high-quality pre-K in their community — for free....

22 Jan

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John Templeton Foundation
January 9, 2025
The John Templeton Foundation is proud to announce nine new grants focused on youth thriving in the digital age. These projects, awarded through the Cultivating Character in the Digital Age funding call, promise to create tools and resources to support character development, advance our understanding of how youth use technology, and spark conversations on how technology can be used for good....

14 Jan

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U.S. News & World Report
January 13, 2025
By Elliott Davis Jr., Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky and Julia Haines
The estimated number of people experiencing homelessness in America surged to about 771,000 in 2024 – shattering last year’s record total since reporting began in 2007. That’s according to the latest release of the Annual Homelessness Assessment Report to Congress from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The report found that on a single night in January of 2024, at least 771,480 people were experiencing...

10 Jan

Posted at 23:14h in News by

John Templeton Foundation
January 9, 2025
The John Templeton Foundation is proud to announce nine new grants focused on youth thriving in the digital age. These projects, awarded through the Cultivating Character in the Digital Age funding call, promise to create tools and resources to support character development, advance our understanding of how youth use technology, and spark conversations on how technology can be used for good....

05 Jan

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Columbia Magazine
Winter 24-25
By David J. Craig
On a misty morning this past June, Denver mayor Mike Johnston stood before a small crowd in his city’s bustling downtown business district and made a surprise announcement. Despite Denver’s mounting homelessness crisis — on any given night some 1,300 people could be found sleeping in boxes, tents, and vehicles —the city was on the cusp of solving the issue for one key group: military veterans. Nearly one hundred veterans a night had been sleeping...

30 Dec

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CBS News
December 27, 2024
Money Watch
Homelessness in the U.S. jumped 18.1% this year, hitting a record level, with the dramatic rise driven mostly by a lack of affordable housing as well as devastating natural disasters and a surge of migrants in some regions of the country, federal officials said Friday. More than 770,000 people were counted as homeless in federally required tallies taken across the country during a single night in January 2024, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said...

27 Dec

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The New York Times
December 27, 2024
By Jason DeParle
Homelessness soared to the highest level on record this year, driven by forces that included a surge in migrants seeking asylum, a national housing crisis and the end of pandemic-era measures to protect the needy, the federal government reported on Friday. The number of people experiencing homelessness topped 770,000, an increase of more than 18 percent over last year and the largest annual increase since the count began in 2007. Nearly every category of...

08 Nov

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CBS News Chicago
November 7, 2024
By Jeramie Bizzle
Barbara Bowman, a pioneer in early childhood education, has died, the Erikson Institute announced this week. Bowman passed away Monday at the age of 96. She began as a preschool teacher in 1950, got her master's in education from the University of Chicago, and co-founded the Erikson Institute. The institution trains people in social work, child development, and early childhood education. It's meant to give educators the skills to help children thrive. "Barbara Taylor Bowman was a...

30 Oct

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The Baltimore Banner
October 29, 2024
By Maya Lora
Traditionally, pre-K is thought of as learning that sets kids up for kindergarten. But research suggests pre-K prepares children not just for school, but for life, said Christy Tirrell-Corbin, the executive director of the Center for Early Childhood Education and Intervention at the University of Maryland. Those who go into kindergarten with a preschool background have stronger scores in literacy and math, better physical and motor development, improved high school graduation rates, higher incomes and...

30 Oct

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San Antonio Report
October 29, 2024
By Isaac Windes
A new 25,000-square-foot early childhood education facility that will serve around 200 children on the South Side of San Antonio is set to break ground in January after years of planning and discussion. The Educare San Antonio initiative joins over two dozen others nationwide and is designed to help fill a need in one of the city’s many “child care” deserts, where there are far fewer quality child care slots than needed. The school will...

30 Oct

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The Seattle Times
October 28, 2024
By Michele Matassa Flores
For more than a decade, The Seattle Times’ Education Lab has focused intently on the importance of high-quality public education and the challenges of meeting that need for all children. Now we’re bringing even more attention to that critical issue with an initiative centered on very young children — specifically on early childhood education, how it positions students for success and how it can be made more accessible. Washington last year ranked 33rd...

28 Sep

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The Hechinger Report
September 26, 2024
By Jackie Mader
Decades of research have shown that children who are born into low-income households have less access to opportunities like high-quality child care and afterschool activities. Now, a 26-year longitudinal study has quantified the severity of this opportunity gap for the first time, as well as the sizable impact this has on children as they grow into young adults. The new study, published by the American Educational Research Association, followed 814 children from low-, middle- and...

28 Sep

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State of Connecticut
Press Release
September 26, 2024
Governor Ned Lamont today announced that his administration is making several changes to Connecticut’s early child care and education programs that will result in more children being able to receive access to these programs, while also lowering the associated costs to their parents. “Access to child care and early education programs is massively important to the success of our state, not only because these programs provide valuable tools for children that will lead them to success...

28 Sep

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The Tennessean
September 27, 2024
By Rachel Wegner
A newly launched coalition made up for 29 community partners across Nashville is taking aim at what it calls a child care crisis in Davidson County. The group, dubbed the Nashville Early Education Coalition, said nearly half of children who are infants up to 5 years old lack access to high-quality, affordable early childhood education. Nearly 60% of families in Nashville say their employment has been disrupted by a lack of child care available to them,...

28 Sep

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The 74 Million
September 25, 2024
By Amanda Geduld
In Dan Wuori’s upcoming book he argues that America’s early childhood policy has been premised on a harmful myth: “This is the myth of daycare,” he writes, “which — in reality — simply doesn’t exist.” How could a system millions rely on simply not exist? Wuori’s answer: That a “crisis of misunderstanding” has turned early childhood centers into an exceedingly expensive and “industrialized form of babysitting” based on the false idea that child care is somehow...

02 Sep

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The 74 Million
September 2, 2024
By Emily Tate Sullivan
Tiaja Gundy was just 19 years old when she started working at Federal Hill House, an early learning center in Providence, Rhode Island. It was 2016, and back then, she lacked experience and expertise working with young children. She had no intention of staying in the field long-term. But the work grew on her. Gundy started out as a “floater,” helping with infants, toddlers and preschoolers as needed. She found she loved being around...

31 Aug

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Vail Daily
August 31, 2024
By Zoe Goldstein
Eagle County School District held a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Gypsum Early Learning Center and accompanying employee housing on Thursday, Aug. 29. Employees and board members of the Eagle County School District, as well as representatives of the construction companies RA Nelson and Haselden Construction Company, gathered on the cleared site that will soon become homes and an educational facility to kick off the journey. The early learning center and housing site already belong to...

29 Aug

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nyc.gov
August 29, 2024
New York City Mayor Eric Adams and leadership of the New York City Council today announced a historic joint effort to strengthen early childhood education across the five boroughs and address longstanding systemic issues, while boosting enrollment and connecting families with more Pre-K and 3-K seats. The strategic plan – developed by an unprecedented joint Adams administration-Council working group, chaired by Deputy Mayor for Strategic Initiatives Ana J. Almanzar and Speaker Adams – will be anchored by $100...