Childcare & Early Education

December 16, 2010

I see myself in this stat. Have you been there too? I'm one of millions of parents across this country who depend on child care. Without child care, I don't know how I'd be able to get to work and provide for my family. I am not alone: Nearly 12 million children under age five regularly spend time...

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Sarah Francis

Childcare & Early Education Paid Sick Days Open Flexible Work

December 14, 2010

I've been thinking over at Raising Generation O lately about the Christmas Spirit. About giving , and teaching children about gratitude and charity, but also about fairness, justice, equity--and how these relate to the season's spirit. At the end of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Caro l (the real,...

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Lisa Harper

Childcare & Early Education

December 6, 2010

Children are dying. A bully is making their lives miserable. A bully is threatening them. Humiliating them. Being mean.

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Lily Eskelsen

Open Flexible Work Childcare & Early Education

November 23, 2010

From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org Your (Wo)man in Washington Guest Post - by Mindy Fried I came across this essay by sociologist Mindy Fried about the lack of paid family leave in the US versus how common it is around the...

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Valerie Young

Childcare & Early Education

November 17, 2010

I remember when I first started teaching sometime in the late 1800s when one of the moms of one of my 4th graders came to the class to apologize. She had always been The Room Mother for her kids, but this year she was working outside the home, and she was apologizing...

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Lily Eskelsen

Childcare & Early Education

November 16, 2010

Week-long, world-wide event features 387 sessions and 60 keynote addresses focused on education technology and global classroom initiatives. The inaugural Global Education Conference, a week-long event bringing together educators and innovators from around the world, will be held Monday, November...

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Homa Tavangar

Childcare & Early Education

November 10, 2010

I recently talked with a mom whose seven-year-old son, Jacob, would become enamored with girls at school and wouldn’t take “no” for an answer. Once he fell for a girl (usually a year or two older) he’d transform into a little stalker, relentlessly wanting to play with them, constantly trying to...

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Joe Newman

Childcare & Early Education

November 9, 2010

While the election is still being pondered by political pundits, real life goes on... including the struggle of real life parents to get affordable access to quality early care and education for their kids so they can get to work. But that struggle may get a lot tougher. In the next few weeks,...

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Sarah Francis

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health Health Care

November 4, 2010

Political pundits are spinning away in the wake of the elections, making guesses about what the election results say about the will of the voters. But it's too critical a time for our country to let the paid pundits have the last word. Moms (and dads!) know more than any political pundit about what...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Childcare & Early Education

November 3, 2010

Every seven seconds, a baby is born in the United States. Recent Census data suggest that more of these babies than ever before are born into poor families. Yet poverty, let alone the extremely high rate of childhood poverty, wasn’t part of the public discourse this election season. Poverty is...

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Danielle Ewen