Youth Today
All posts tagged "Child Care and Development"
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1.6KFrom the FieldChild care solutions for community colleges
Community college child care options lag student needs everywhere because of insufficient investment at the federal and state government levels.
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1.9KNewsYoung children may go hungry as summer begins
Republican governors in 13 states rejected federal funding for summer lunches.
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2.7KOpinionQ&A: Advocacy group leader talks about the challenges of transitional kindergarten
Children learn at different rates. We need to individualize early childhood education.
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1.8KNewsFor some tribal communities, Head Start programs provide a cultural lifeline
For tribal communities, Head Start provides more than just child care and school readiness.
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2.0KNewsAmeriCorps’ work with students nationwide in limbo despite halt to federal funding cuts
No relief for hundreds of programs in Republican-led states that sat out the lawsuit.
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4.9K► Reports2025 KIDS COUNT data book: State trends in child well-being
An annual report tracking child well-being across the country shows a mixed-bag of results.
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1.7KNewsFederal judge prevents Trump administration’s cuts to AmeriCorps
AmeriCorps volunteers work in schools, health facilities, food banks, homeless shelters and veterans’ facilities.
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2.2KNewsHow classroom rituals help create community
Students feel disconnected from themselves, each other, their environment: Classroom rituals help them reconnect.
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2.3KNewsOut-of-school programs play an outsized role in child development
New research shows that OST programs are more important than policymakers and parents realize.
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1.9KOpinionConnection and co-regulation precede self-management: A common sense approach to learning, development and discipline
Self-control is not built through discipline/punishment; but cultivated through relationships, trust, and co-regulation.
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3.5KNewsHead Start gets a reprieve from Trump budget cuts, but the fight isn’t over
Head Start staff and advocates launched a nationwide campaign to save the program.
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1.7KNewsAn agency tasked with protecting immigrant children is becoming an enforcement arm, current and former staffers say
ORR's mission to focus on the welfare of immigrant children appears to be changing.
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933► ReportsA guide to improving participation in your state’s child care subsidy system
A guide discusses how to sustainably increase participation in state child care subsidy systems.
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1.5KFrom the FieldSchools and communities can help children bounce back after distressing disasters like the LA wildfires
Research shows that prolonged school closures can significantly affect children’s learning and mental health.
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1.2KNewsExpanding the child tax credit has some Republican support. Now what?
Many lawmakers want to expand the credit, a longtime Democratic priority.
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1.7KNewsUnsanitary practices persist at baby formula factory whose shutdown led to mass shortages, workers say
Shortcuts are taken when cleaning manufacturing equipment, repairing leaks and testing for dangerous microbes.
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1.9KNewsHead Start is turning 60. The federal child care program may not make it to 61
Providers operating on ‘razor-thin margins’ worry about possible deep cuts from the Trump administration.
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3.8K► NewsmakersEvery Hour Counts adds 14 new members
This brings the network’s total membership to 40 communities across more than 20 states.
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2.0KOpinionUsing different words to find common ground
Thriving. Development. Learning. Education. Which one of these concepts is not like the other?
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3.0KNewsLet’s talk: Teachers pushed to converse more with youngest kids
States are using talk pedometers and conversation coaches to develop young brains.
