Children and Youth

Making classrooms feel inclusive can help promote STEM education and make students feel capable of working on STEM subjects outside of the classroom, a new study shows. “We found that…

Over the last two decades, MDRC has conducted rigorous research in more than 1,000 early education classrooms. The evidence suggests three important investments that states, districts, and programs can make to support…

For Black youth, a police encounter by eighth grade predicts they will be arrested by young adulthood, but research finds the same is not true for white youth. Black young…

For Thania Hernandez, opening Mis Primeros Pasos – a bilingual child care center in Ellsworth, Maine – was the realization of a long-held dream. Hernandez is a child of immigrants…

This bold plan takes the necessary steps to begin addressing our child care crisis. However, a portion of those funds should be earmarked to increase and support Black-owned child care…

Tools used to detect multiple sclerosis in at-risk adults may fail to predict the neurological disorder in children, a new study shows.

Congress is considering President Joe Biden’s historic plan for transforming our social safety net, including the grossly underfunded care economy that includes the elderly, the disabled and young children. All sectors of…

Lessons from a nonprofit’s attempts to change systems that impact children with developmental disabilities.

The need for increased child care access and quality have never been more important, and the child care industry has never been more fragile. The Biden administration’s signature domestic bill,…

Black children were 100x more likely than white children to experience firearm assault injuries in the first 21 months of the COVID pandemic.

As more companies take note of the ESG trend, I’ve been fielding client questions about how ESG is changing talent needs In my view, ESG is having an impact in…

Rather than offering wages attractive to adults, employers want lawmakers to push teens into some of the most dangerous jobs in the country.