14 Oct Nashville Early Education Coalition Q & A with Dr. Dan Wuori
Nashville Early Education Coalition hosts a wonderful book read launch event with Dr. Dan Wuori. ...
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25 Sep Berkeley Film Foundation Announces 2025 Grant Recipients
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 Jul Stanford’s RAPID Newsletter Highlights SZCF
RAPID | Stanford Center on Early Childhood Summer 25 What is the state of family hardship in 2025? A panel of experts involved in collecting and using these important family data looked at how material hardship, instability, and emotional distress are shaping the lives of caregivers and young children. ...
18 Jul Screen time and development | New report finds children as young as 5 should have less technology
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...
31 Mar What the Children’s Bureau Teaches us About Promoting Federal Programs
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....
25 Apr Harvard President Garber Names Nonie Lesaux Interim HGSE Dean
The Harvard Crimson April 25, 2024 By Katie B. Tian Nonie K. Lesaux will serve as interim dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education after Bridget Terry Long departs the post at the end of this academic year, interim Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 announced in a Thursday email to HGSE affiliates. This decision comes three months after Long’s announcement of her resignation back in January, during which time HGSE released no public information about a search for her successor. The first...
02 Apr Dan Wuori featured in The New York Times
The New York Times By Dana Goldstein March 31, 2024 Watch These Cute Videos of Babies (and Learn Something, Too) SZCF's own Dan Wuori was interviewed and profiled in the New York Times for his incredible work in ECE and for his unique and influential Twitter/X presence. ...
07 Mar The Breakthrough Years
March 7, 2024 The Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation is please to announce Ellen Galinsky's new book, The Breakthrough Years, out on March 26th. The book provides a paradigm-shifting, yet practical, understanding of adolescence. Click the image above to pre-order/order your copy!...
04 Feb We Americans Neglect Our Children
The New York Times By Nikolas Kristof February 4, 2024 An early child care program modeled after the one that exists in the U.S. military. If our armed forces can operate a child care program with fees based on ability to pay, then the rest of the country can as well. A government-supported early childhood program rescues parents and kids alike. Roughly one child in six is living with a parent who misused drugs in the last year, and some of these children...
19 Jan Berkeley FILM Foundation Receives $1.5M Grant From The Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation
Berkeley Film Foundation Media Contact: Andrew Neilly, Nancy Amaral BERKELEY, Calif., January 18, 2024– The Berkeley FILM Foundation (BFF) has received a $1.5 million grant from the Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation (SZCF). The funding over a three-year period will augment BFF’s current grant program to fund local independent film projects, establishes new educational programs focused on filmmaking, and inaugurates the first annual Saul Zaentz Film Festival to be held September 14-15 at the Smith Rafael Film Center in partnership with the California...
19 Dec Lost in the Policy Woods? Finding Your Way to Equity and Access with the Zaentz Navigator
Early Learning Nation By Mark Swartz December 19, 2023 Imagine you work for an advocacy organization in one state and you want to find out how other states are raising revenue to support early education and care. If you Google child care tax revenue or daycare tax payments, almost all the results pertain to the tax credits that individuals can apply for when they file their taxes. Refining your search terms might give you better results, but it might take hours to track...
07 Dec Gift advances the work of the Stanford Center on Early Childhood
Stanford University By Vincent Ingram December 7, 2023 A generous gift to the Stanford Center on Early Childhood will advance the center’s work in early childhood and accelerate the exchange of expertise among researchers, policymakers, and front-line practitioners. The Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation is providing funding to expand a valuable large-scale data collection tool called the RAPID Survey, which tracks the experiences of young children, their families, and caregivers and is used by practitioners, government systems, and other stakeholders to address critical challenges for...
22 Aug Innovative digital tool equips policymakers with strategies and innovations from all 50 states to advance and strengthen early education and care
Cision PR Newswire Provided by the Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative August 22, 2023 The Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative at the Harvard Graduate School of Education today launched the Zaentz Navigator, an innovative, user-friendly, and interactive digital tool to help policymakers and leaders learn how cities and states across the country are working to structure, finance, expand, and advance early education and care. The Navigator is appearing at a time when it is needed most. Record spending on early education as part of...
27 Jun How Colorado Went From ‘Laggard to Leader’ in Early Childhood Education
EdSurge By Emily Tate Sullivan June 27, 2023 In late April, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis sat down at his desk to make some phone calls. The governor, on this day, was calling to deliver good news. He wanted to personally congratulate some of the 22,087 families who had matched with their first-choice provider for Colorado’s free, universal preschool program, which launches this fall. A parent named Katie, in Summit County, was among those who received a call from the governor. “Oh, thank you so much....
23 Jun SF parents cry foul over proposed early childhood education budget cuts
CBS Bay Area By Kenny Choi June 23, 2023 SAN FRANCISCO – There's a tug of war in San Francisco between Mayor London Breed's office and early education advocates over a voter-approved business tax and proposed budget cuts. For more than 30 years Andy Reed has been guiding children to see the world from different perspectives, make good decisions, and lay a solid foundation for their education. "It's always fresh. It's always a new discovery no matter how many years we've done it," said...
21 Jun Universal Preschool Program: 90% children matched to chosen providers in first 2 rounds
CBS Colorado June 21, 2023 More than 2,700 families have accepted matches in the first two rounds of Colorado's Universal Preschool program. That's according to the Department of Early Childhood. Ninety percent of children were matched to their chosen providers. Children who are a year out from kindergarten are eligible for free preschool for up to 15 hours a week or about five half days. Families can go online, enter their information, and find providers either home-based, center-based, or school-based, and pick...
08 Jun The Early Learning Teacher Corps: A Public Service Innovation in Louisiana
Early Learning Nation By Mark Swartz June 8, 2023 In 1999, addressing AmeriCorps members on the program’s fifth anniversary, President Bill Clinton said, “There is no question that you are now an indispensable force for change in America.” The same year, when Kristi Givens went into the child care profession, she didn’t know she would someday cross paths with the national service program. The proprietor of three child care centers in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward, Givens is cofounder with Rochelle Wilcox—a child care...
03 May Harvard Recognizes Innovators in Early Education
Cision PR Newswire News Provided By The Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative May 1, 2023 BOSTON, May 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative at the Harvard Graduate School of Education has announced the winners of its 2023 Zaentz Early Education Innovation Challenge. Now in its fourth year, the Challenge recognizes promising new ideas and strategic approaches that have the potential to transform early education. On April 27, 2023, 11 finalists pitched their ideas to a panel of judges and a...
09 Feb The top films of World War II veteran and producer Saul Zaentz
We Are The Mighty By Joel Searls February 7, 2023 Saul Zaentz started out in the music industry post his service in the Army during World War II. He worked with the Jazz at the Philharmonic which included him managing tours for such musicians as Duke Ellington and Stan Getz. He joined Fantasy Records in the mid-1950s and stayed there through the 1960s having discovered Creedence Clearwater Revival. Although CCR and Zaentz didn’t end on the best terms they did find a lot...
18 Nov Parents Need Their Own AARP
By Dana Suskind November 18, 2022 Compared with other wealthy nations, the United States is a uniquely difficult place to raise children. One in four mothers returns to work within two weeks of giving birth, and we’re the only rich country that doesn’t have federally mandated paid leave for new parents. While other wealthy countries invest an average of $14,000 a year for every toddler’s care, America spends $500. The pandemic sharpened our awareness of these problems—parents left the workforce in droves, child-care...