Impact of Low-quality Child Care Continues into Adolescence

This post is written by Amy Fain. A new research study finds children who have received poor childcare are impacted negatively for many years, even after they leave the low quality care environment.  This study looked at 1364 children from varied background and found a similar patterns to their behavior as old as fifteen.   The [...]

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The Child Care Catch-22

You can’t afford child care without work, and you can’t work without child care. Child care subsidy programs are supposed to address this problem, but… Parents across the nation are finding it even more difficult to go back to work, since many states are cutting critical child care subsidies, reports the New York Times. These [...]

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Tulsa World Digs into DHS Child Care Ratings

(Note: I kind of buried the lede here. Make sure you see the second-to-last paragraph.) The Tulsa World spent the last two days investigating the ratings and inspection process DHS uses for child care and early education providers. DHS has documented 400 violations in routine inspections of 3-star providers in Tulsa County since January 2007. [...]

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Parent Involvement Innovation

I’ve heard of child-care and home school coops before, but not this. A letter to the editor in yesterday’s Washington Post praises D.C.’s cooperative play program: The major reason the children are doing so well is that all of the parents at the program are active participants in the education of their children. Parents at [...]

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