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Each year, the first full week of May is dedicated as national Teacher Appreciation Week and gives us a chance to publicly thank early childhood educators. This year, we are especially thankful. Read More

This special webinar event featured Dr. William Jackson from Village of Wisdom and a panel of early childhood educators from the Schoenbaum Family Center. Learn how anti-bias and anti-racist classrooms are key to ensuring all children can access learning opportunities and examples of ABAR practices in action in an infant/toddler classroom, a preschool classroom, and through a multi-site book study for educators. Read More

This week’s update includes a new analysis suggesting “student learning loss” is a misnomer of sorts, how school-age child care has been overlooked, and why state and district leaders nationwide are setting aside federal relief dollars to increase pre-K access. Read More

This week’s update includes major federal shifts in child and family policy, how home-based providers in particular have been devastated by the pandemic, and an article suggesting that the pandemic deserves credit for raising awareness of early childhood’s importance. Read More

Our April Crane Research Forum explored Dr. Kelly Purtell's research on the relationship between the kindergarten transition and factors which influence this important time for young children. Read More

This week’s update includes data from 2020 which found that as many as 11 million children could be living in homes without enough food, new federal investments in child care, and new research on using audio-books to improve preschoolers’ vocabulary. Read More

The OSU Early Head Start Partnership Program was awarded an additional $10 million from a federal expansion grant, which allows them to build upon and expand vital services supporting the health, learning, and well-being of young children and families in central Ohio. Read on to learn how this will impact even more families in our community. Read More

This week’s update includes a new report estimating a universal child care system in the U.S. would boost the collective lifetime earnings of 1.3 million women by $130 billion, why the Health Policy Institute of Ohio ranks the state 47th out of 50 states and D.C. on its “health value”, and new Crane Center research on “Media Use Among Kindergarteners from Low-Income Households During the COVID-19 Shutdown.” Read More

This week’s update includes Ohio State House Reps. Stephanie Howse and Erica Crawley penned an opinion piece which advocates for the Ohio House to pass legislation declaring racism as a public health crisis, an opinion piece co-authored by Senator Elizabeth Warren urging Congress to pass caregiving legislation, and study published in JAMA Pediatrics attempts to quantify just how many children have experienced COVID-19 loss through the death of a parent. Read More

This week’s update includes U.S. women's participation in the labor force is at a 33-year low, Ohio lawmakers consider revisions to the school and district report card system and new research examining pandemic-related challenges facing early childhood providers.  Read More