Reporter Emily Tate Sullivan has been writing about early care and education since 2019. In this essay, she describes how, this year, she began living it.

School enrollment for the nation’s youngest learners nosedived during the pandemic—and has yet to fully recover. Instability in early childhood education could cause long-term problems, not only for ...

For the first few years of life, we have a lot to learn. Luckily, young brains are up for the challenge. Learning starts before we take our first breath. “We encourage parents to read a book and sing ...

November 6, 2025 - A new law aims to get more teachers instructing kids in how to sound out words to be able to access the joy of reading. It is just as natural for young children to think ...

Early learning educators share what a future might look like, in which every child in the country has access to high-quality early learning experiences and the resulting long-lasting impacts. Carrie ...

Children play at a child care center in New York. To help secure Build Back Better funding for early education, messaging about it needs to be clear. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report The ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

Mariah is a Berlin-based writer with six years of experience in writing, localizing and SEO-optimizing short- and long-form content across multiple niches, including higher education, digital ...

Norway and Sweden spent nearly 2 percent of their gross domestic product on early-childhood programs and education in 2013, while the United States spent 0.4 percent—well below the 0.8 average of all ...