A multiyear qualitative study finds low-income families seeking dependable child care are hampered by unsteady work, fluctuating wages, and unreliable transportation.
Can you really share books with children who don’t talk yet? Yes! Mothers, fathers, grandparents, aunts, uncles—even older brothers and sisters—can ...
Preventing Childhood Obesity in Early Care and Education Programs is the new set of national standards describing evidence-based best practices in nutrition, physical ...
With U.S. breastfeeding rates at recorded highs and over 50 percent of mothers with children less than 1 year of age in the labor force today, there is a strong need ...
Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) — a strategy to improve families’ access to high-quality child care — assess the quality of child care ...
This podcast series that translates the research of early childhood development into parenting practices that mothers, fathers and other caregivers can tailor to the ...
Parents and caregivers are arguably the most important stakeholders in a child’s educational success. With nearly 1.3 million students dropping out of high ...
The Dollar General Literacy Foundation works to improve the functional literacy of adults, families, and youth by providing grants to nonprofit organizations ...
COLUMBIA, Mo. – While it may appear that infants are helpless creatures that only blink, eat, cry and sleep, one University of Missouri researcher says that ...
Adults who participated in a high quality early childhood education program in the 1970s are still benefitting from their early experiences in a variety of ways, ...
To support the goal of ensuring all children can read by grade level three, and never forgetting that families are most central to children's success, the ...
January is National Mentoring Month. The following resources on recruiting and screening volunteer mentors have been developed by the National Mentoring Center and ...
Advances in diverse scientific, psychological, and economic fields are catalyzing an important paradigm shift in our understanding of health and disease across the ...
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof writes that "perhaps the most widespread peril children face isn’t guns, swimming pools or speeding cars. Rather, ...
RESULTS connects grass-roots volunteers with key issues affecting children and youth, from fighting poverty among working families to bolstering early learning programs.
Play is essential to the social, emotional, cognitive, and physical well-being of children beginning in early childhood. It is a natural tool for children to develop ...
