In the nearly 13 years since I wrote my first early childhood story for The Hechinger Report, I have never experienced a year quite like 2025. From the gutting of federal early childhood offices to ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

Nkechy Ezeh, founder and CEO of Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative, used ELNC funds for personal trips to Hawaii and ...

When it comes to early childhood education, child’s play may well be serious business. Fun and games bring more than just joy. They may be the key to helping children thrive in tough times, experts ...

Julia Leavitt, with the Walla Walla Valley Early Learning Coalition, sat down with the Union-Bulletin for a Community Q&A to ...

Despite this, global access to early childhood education remains highly unequal. While 89% of children in high-income countries benefit from early education, only 35% of children in low-income ...

All children are born ready to learn, but for 15 million children living in poverty in America, they enter school unready to succeed. Before even walking through the classroom door, American children ...

A child plays with chalk during the Our Babies 1st: Restore the Pay Equity Fund rally at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., on May 13, 2024. (Getty/Jemal Countess) This report accompanies the first ...

Tanoto Foundation convened government leaders, international organisations, researchers, and civil society at the 2025 International Symposium on Early Childhood Education and Development (ECED), in ...

The Center for American Progress has developed a data dashboard that allows users to explore national- and state-level data trends on a range of child care and early learning topics, including access ...

ON YOUR SIDE learned from court filings that the Dr. Nkechy Ekere Ezeh agreed to plead guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and tax evasion.