NewsOne Featured Video A class at Little Flowers Early Childhood and Development Center located in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, on January 11, 2021. | Source: The Washington Post / Getty No family should be forced to compromise their child’s safety and well-being because they do not have affordable care. And no employer should […]
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A Brooklyn Charter School Is Open 12 Hours to Attract Students
It sounds like a dream for some working parents: school for 12 hours a day, starting bright and early at 7 a.m. and ending after dinner, at 7 p.m., all completely free. One elementary school, Brooklyn Charter School, is experimenting with the idea as a way to tackle two problems at once. The first is […]
Read MoreWhat Happened When This Italian Province Invested in Babies
In a municipal building in the heart of the alpine city of Bolzano, Stefano Baldo clocked out of work early for his breastfeeding break. “It’s clear I don’t breastfeed,” Mr. Baldo, a 38-year-old transportation administrator, said in his office decorated with pictures of his wife and six children. But with his wife home with a […]
Read MoreWatch These Cute Videos of Babies (and Learn Something, Too)
Is it possible that on X — the social media site formerly known as Twitter and sometimes called “the hell site” — there remains a font of delight and edification, a place to witness laughter and even love? The answer, believe it or not, is yes. It is the account of Dan Wuori, an education […]
Read MoreHow Patty Murray Won $1 Billion for Child Care as Congress Is Deadlocked
Senator Patty Murray got inspired to enter politics when a male state legislator derided her efforts to fight budget cuts to early education programs, calling her “just a mom in tennis shoes” — a remark she would proudly adopt as her campaign slogan. So it came as little surprise that more than 40 years later, […]
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