So far, 2025 has been a horror year for early education and care. Much of the recent media and political coverage about childcare has focused on safety. This is understandable, given the numerous, ...

Lakeside Early Learning will close permanently on June 4, leaving 60 families to find childcare, and workers to find new jobs ...

Start Early advances quality early learning for families with children, before birth through their earliest years, to help close the opportunity gap. The first five years of a child’s life are ...

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 ...

Opened in July 2025, the WIU Bilingual Early Learning & Family Center offers a high-quality, university-aligned early learning experience for both native Spanish-speaking and non-Spanish-speaking ...

Ensuring children’s success in school has to start with quality early childhood education. Drexel UCP supports this effort through the West Philadelphia Action for Early Learning Initiative (AFEL) – a ...

About 15,000 children in Washington receive early learning and family support services from Head Start, the federal preschool program for low-income children. Eighty-one percent of parents said ...

Across the country, early childhood education centers have confronted mounting challenges in an industry that relies heavily ...