11 Feb SXSW EDU Film & Performance Lineup Announced
We are thrilled to announce that "Tomorrow's Hope" is screening at SXSW EDU (followed by a Q&A) - March 7th in Austin, TX....
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10 Feb Bipartisan working group calls for rebalancing the budget to invest more in America’s children
By Nora Delaney February 10, 2022 A new bipartisan report calls for "rewriting the generational contract" to increase investments in America’s children significantly by shifting funds from programs that now go toward supporting older, wealthier adults. In the report, "Rebalancing: Children First," leading scholars convened by two of the country’s most respected think tanks propose directing more national funds to help children. Currently, more than 40% of the federal budget flows to Americans over the age of 65, compared to only 7.4% spent...
10 Feb NPR: A top researcher says it’s time to rethink our entire approach to preschool
By Anya Kamenetz February 10, 2022 Dale Farran has been studying early childhood education for half a century. Yet her most recent scientific publication has made her question everything she thought she knew. "It really has required a lot of soul-searching, a lot of reading of the literature to try to think of what were plausible reasons that might account for this."...
02 Feb The New York Times: How to Fix Child Care Before the Next Pandemic Wave
By Jessica Grose February 2, 2022 In January, parents of kids under 5 told me they were in a state of despair and semi-panic; emotionally, they were at the lowest I’d heard them since the pandemic’s beginning in March 2020. ...
19 Jan Families in Alabama have free, full-day pre-K while many Mass. families can only dream of it
By Naomi Martin and Jenna Russell January 17, 2022 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Leighton Harris, 4, sat with her classmates on a rug before a whiteboard. One of her two teachers praised the little girl’s calm, attentive posture: “I love how Leighton is sitting.’’ A year before the start of kindergarten, Leighton is well-prepared, having already practiced not just her letters and numbers, but also subtle skills key for school success, such as breathing through stress and the art of sitting quietly and...
18 Jan Kids’ Behavior Worsened With Remote Learning: Study
January 11, 2022 As the Omicron variant surges and U.S. schools deal with a substitute teacher shortage and related pandemic fallout, don't be surprised if a return to remote or hybrid learning leads your kids to act out, a new study warns....
10 Jan JAMA Pediatrics Study: School Learning Format and Children’s Behavioral Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic
January 10, 2022 Emily C. Hanno, PhD The COVID-19 pandemic has interrupted the education of more than 1 billion children worldwide, with many experiencing shifts between remote, hybrid, and in-person learning. As the COVID-19 pandemic and interruptions to learning continue, we need to understand their consequences for children’s behavioral health to inform response efforts. We used longitudinal data to examine how children’s behavioral well-being differed by learning format....
05 Jan How can we improve early childhood education? Use public dollars to pay teachers more.
January 5, 2022 High rates of teacher turnover are among the greatest barriers to building high-quality early childhood education (ECE) systems. In the United States, teachers working with the youngest learners turn over at much higher rates than those in the K-12 education system....
08 Dec Pritzker announces $300M in relief grants for childcare providers
December 2, 2021 SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced a whopping $300 million in relief grants for childcare providers. Pritzker says the grants are designed to assist the families of 95,000 children by making childcare more affordable....
10 Nov 2021 Family Child Care Innovation Networks Award
Interviews and personal accounts from our grant recipients and 2021 Family Childcare Networks Innovation Winners....
28 Oct Alabama’s first apprenticeship for early childhood educators established
October 28, 2021 This fall, two apprentices at the Coleman Center for Early Learning will serve as a pilot group. Secretary Barbara Cooper of the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education (ADECE) joined leaders from Troy University, Wallace Community College, and the Alabama Office of Apprenticeship to officially sign documents establishing Alabama’s first apprenticeship for Early Childhood Educators on Wednesday, October 27, 2021, at the Coleman Center for Early Learning on the Troy University Dothan Campus, 504 University Dr, Dothan, AL....
27 Oct In-Person Screenings of Tomorrow’s Hope and Kaotic Drumline: Drumming with a Difference
October 26, 2021 The Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation documentaries Tomorrow's Hope and Kaotic Drumline: Drumming with a Difference screened (in person!) in Los Angeles at Regal LA Live Cinemas, at the 12th Annual Awareness Film Festival. The Panel ("The Next Gen") featured the filmmaking team conversing about the films' inspirational personalities and their remarkable creativity in the face of tremendous challenges, as well as discussing themes including systemic inequality and advancing hope of building a brighter future....
12 Oct The New York Times: Is Child Care a Public Responsibility?
October 12, 2021 Many Americans pay more for child care than they do for their mortgages, even though the wages for those who provide the care are among the lowest in the United States. Democrats see the issue as a fundamental market failure and are pushing a plan to bridge the gap with federal subsidies. We went to Greensboro, N.C., to try to understand how big the problem is and to ask whether it is the job of the federal government...
12 Oct PBS Airs Special on Child Care
October 12, 2021 Tonight at 10pm EST, PBS airs an hour-long documentary that takes an in-depth look at how the lack of affordable, quality child care is affecting American families, which has plagued families in the U.S. for more than a century....
06 Oct Governor Jim Hunt | 2021 Dr. Robert E. Bridges Lifetime Achievement Award
October 5, 2021 Governor Hunt received the Dr. Robert E. Bridges Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021 at WakeEd Partnership's Stars of Education event....
30 Sep Stanford Social Innovation Review: Investing in Child Care Entrepreneurs
Sep. 30, 2021 By Betsy Biemann & Keith Bisson COVID-19 didn’t just reveal a broken child care system. A confluence of events dramatically worsened the frayed patchwork of child care programs in the US, after significant drops in center enrollment when parents lost jobs, shifts from in-school to at-home learning, and uncertainty about health and safety during a global pandemic. Since a lack of licensed child care options has long correlated with higher rates of unemployment, underemployment, and poverty, these problems only...
22 Sep Wildsound’s The Film Podcast Blog: Filmmaker Aaron Steinberg on Kaotic Drumline: Drumming with a Difference
September 13, 2021 Host Matthew Toffolo has a conversation with filmmaker Aaron Steinberg on the process making this documentary short, Kaotic Drumline, winner of BEST DIRECTION at the 2021 Chicago Feedback Festival....
18 Sep Interview with Filmmaker Aaron Steinberg – KAOTIC DRUMLINE: DRUMMING WITH A DIFFERENCE
September 9, 2021 KAOTIC DRUMLINE: DRUMMING WITH A DIFFERENCE played to rave reviews at the September 2021 MUSIC Film Festival. Interview with Matthew Toffolo and posted to matthewtoffolo.com....
18 Sep Yellen, Harris urge childcare investments to boost overall U.S. economy
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday called for urgent action to make affordable childcare available to more families, calling such investments critical to ensuring U.S. growth and global competitiveness....
14 Sep Starting at Zero Now Available on Kanopy
SZCF is pleased to announce that Starting at Zero is now available on Kanopy. Kanopy partners with public libraries and universities, providing ad-free films and series that can be enjoyed on all devices – TV, mobile phone, tablet and online. Kanopy is available to students/faculty/patrons at universities and libraries that offer the platform....