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25 Sep

Posted at 17:33h in News, Press by

International Documentary Association
September 24, 2025
Today, the Berkeley Film Foundation (BFF) announces that it has awarded a total of more than $350,000 in its 2025 grant cycle to 29 independent filmmakers, including 5 student filmmakers, who live, work, or attend school in the East Bay cities of Richmond, El Cerrito, Berkeley, Albany, Emeryville, or Oakland. Since its founding in 2009, BFF has awarded almost $3.3 million to 338 film projects that continuously push creative boundaries and inspire change. The amount awarded...

24 Sep

Posted at 21:36h in News, Tomorrow's Hope by

Start Early
September 24, 2025
This year marks 25 years since Start Early’s Educare Chicago program pioneered the promise to transform the lives of families and young children in our most under-served communities through comprehensive, quality early learning and care. To help us celebrate, you’re invited to join us virtually on Friday, October 3 for Educare Chicago’s 25th Anniversary Symposium to reflect on the evolution of early childhood over the last quarter of a century and to explore what’s ahead. In addition...

15 Sep

Posted at 19:29h in News by

NBC News
September 10, 2025
By Adam Edelman
New Mexico will become the first state in the country to begin offering free universal child care, Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced. The move amounts to an expansion of an existing program that went into effect three years ago that has aided thousands of families in the state. “Child care is essential to family stability, workforce participation, and New Mexico’s future prosperity,” Lujan Grisham said in a statement announcing the expanded program Monday. “By investing in...

02 Sep

Posted at 01:50h in News, Press by

Better Magazine
August 4, 2025
By Howard Gardner and Mara Krechevsky
“There is a vast difference between knowing the right thing to do and actually doing the right thing,” Nobel-winning economist Thomas Schelling once said. The evidence is unequivocal: early childhood education is one of the most impactful investments a society can make. Ninety percent of brain development occurs before the age of five, and decades of interdisciplinary research demonstrate the profound, long-term benefits of high-quality early learning — not only for individual children...

29 Aug

Posted at 21:31h in News by

Time
August 27, 2025
By Dana Suskind
On a recent Sunday afternoon, I witnessed my son step into the long tradition of medicine at the University of Chicago's white coat ceremony. I watched him stand tall, reciting words physicians have spoken for centuries: “First, do no harm.” As a doctor myself, those words have been my compass in every diagnosis, every surgery, every hard conversation. But as I left the auditorium, I couldn't stop thinking: In 2025, there's another group of professionals whose decisions...

06 Aug

Posted at 21:23h in News by

The New York Times
August 5, 2025
By Sarah Nir
At the edge of Lake Kanawauke in New York’s Hudson Valley, third graders splished in the shallows, giggling till they came ashore spluttering. On the portico of a bunkhouse, teenage boys raced paper boats in buckets. Under the eaves of their tent, 7-year-old girls in a bunk bed exchanged friendship bracelets. Beneath a nearby beech tree, their bunk mates held a solemn funeral for a ladybug. Summer camp is always an oasis, particularly for...

05 Aug

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The Atlantic
August 4, 2025
By Lenore Skenazy, Zach Rausch, and Jonathan Haidt
One common explanation for why children spend so much of their free time on screens goes like this: Smartphones and social-media platforms are addicting them. Kids stare at their devices and socialize online instead of in person because that’s what tech has trained them to want. But this misses a key part of the story. The three of us collaborated with the Harris Poll to survey a group of Americans whose...

29 Jul

Posted at 21:18h in News by

Fortune
July 29, 2025
By Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez
YouTube cofounder Steve Chen is the latest tech trailblazer to warn against social media’s impact on kids. Chen warned in a recently published talk that short-form video “equates to shorter attention spans” and said he wouldn’t want his own kids to exclusively consume this type of content. Companies that distribute short-form video (which includes the company he cofounded, YouTube) should add safeguards for younger users, he added. Steve Chen, who served as YouTube’s former chief technology officer...

18 Jul

Posted at 21:08h in News, Press, Stanford by

CBS News
July 18, 2025
By John Shumway
Much has been said about the detrimental impact of screens on childhood development, but a new study takes that concern to an even younger age. This is as much about what children aren't doing as it is about what they are doing. There is no question that we are seeing the screen time impact on our children. "A lot of them have lost the ability to interact, to make eye contact, and have conversations," said...

02 Jul

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Brookings
By Isabelle Hau and Rebecca Winthrop
July 2, 2025
We are living through a paradox that may define our era. Humans are wired to connect, yet we’ve never been more isolated. At the same time, artificial intelligence (AI) is growing more responsive, conversational, and emotionally attuned by the day. Perhaps because of this, we are increasingly turning to machines for what we’re not getting from each other: companionship. In a recent Harvard Business Review article, researchers reported that the top use cases of...

04 Jun

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Alliance for Early Success
May 2025
Support for state early childhood policies and funding continued to be strong in 2024, with policymakers from every region and political landscape acting to improve their early childhood policies. In our annual survey of state early childhood advocates, all states with a legislative session reported a policy win, and 83 percent reported a win that included an increase in state funding. Many legislatures appropriated state funds to close federal funding gaps, signaling the importance of investing...

26 May

Posted at 21:22h in News by

NYT Opinion
May 13, 2025
The Ezra Klein Show
I honestly don’t know how I should be educating my kids. A.I. has raised a lot of questions for schools. Teachers have had to adapt to the most ingenious cheating technology ever devised. But for me, the deeper question is: What should schools be teaching at all? A.I. is going to make the future look very different. How do you prepare kids for a world you can’t predict? And if we can offload more...

21 May

Posted at 23:50h in News by

ZerotoEight
May 21 2025
Early Learning Nation is relaunching as zero2eight, a new editorial vertical at The 74. Our coverage will build upon the previous work of Early Learning Nation, continuing to cover the issues most critical to America’s youngest children. What can you expect as a reader? While we have a new name, page and logo, zero2eight will continue and expand the mission of Early Learning Nation, examining the field of early care and education for children 0 to 8 years old, a crucial period...

15 May

Posted at 23:48h in News, Stanford by

Stanford Center on Early Childhood
May 14, 2025
The Stanford Center on Early Childhood is proud to announce two new fellowships that have been graciously funded by The Zaentz Charitable Foundation.
The Zaentz Community Fellowship Program (ZCFP) This program aims to support leadership development in early childhood champions within RAPID communities. The Zaentz Fellows Program (Masters) This is a new fellowship designed to support the leadership development of graduate students interested in early childhood....

30 Apr

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Schoolhouse Connection
April 30, 2025
A new report from national nonprofit SchoolHouse Connection reveals that an estimated 446,996 infants and toddlers—ages birth through three—experienced homelessness during the 2022–2023 program year. This marks a staggering 23% increase in just two years. The report, Infant and Toddler Homelessness Across 50 States: 2022–2023, produced in partnership with Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan, is the only 50-state analysis of homelessness among our nation’s youngest children. It presents the latest state-level estimates of infant and toddler...

28 Apr

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K-12 Dive
April 28, 2025
By Kara Arundel
A program that supports infants and toddlers with developmental delays and their families could face significant fiscal pressures due to the Trump administration’s overall efforts to reduce the size and budget of the federal government. While no specific cuts to the Part C program have been announced yet, Congress will be contemplating proposals to whittle down annual allocations and a possible reduction to Medicaid payments — both of which help prop up early intervention services...

28 Apr

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EdSurge
April 21, 2025
By Claire Woodcock
Along the Canadian border in north central Washington’s Okanogan County, where the closest major city is at least 100 miles away and infrastructure is sparse, the Okanogan County Child Development Association oversees nine Head Start centers in the region. In an area where wages haven’t kept up with inflation, forcing working families to make measured financial choices, these centers provide child care to nearly 160 area preschoolers, toddlers and infants who are living at or below the...

28 Apr

Posted at 19:22h in News, Zaentz Initiative by

The Harvard Gazette
April 25, 2025
By Mackenzie L. Boucher
Nonie K. Lesaux had been a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education for more than two decades — nearly her entire professional career — by the time she was named dean in March. A scholar of early childhood education and literacy, Lesaux’s extensive scholarship and minimal political engagement has allowed the new dean and the education school to fly under the radar amid an escalating campaign by the Trump administration to defund...

31 Mar

Posted at 22:07h in News, Press by

Time Magazine
March 31, 2025
By Michelle Bezark
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is tearing through the federal government agency by agency, slashing programs, firing civil servants, and cutting research dollars. Polling indicates Americans may be souring on this approach, as program cuts come closer to home. Even then, some 40% of Americans believe the country could run with almost no federal employees. This reflects how disconnected Americans have become from federal agencies and the programs and services they provide....