A Blueprint for Student-Led Civic Engagement
Hollie Russon Gilman and Sarah Jacob spoke with Austin Community College’s Center for Government and Civic Service about how students are gai…
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StudyNPlay: Preserving Parent-Child Connection While Supporting Persistence
Supervised play fosters parent-child connection while giving parents time to study and connect to resources to supp…
Building the Foundation for Deliberation in Akron
In Akron, Ohio, residents came together to deliberate on the topic of housing through a civic assembly.
Q&A with Economist Jessica H. Brown About Accurately Measuring Child Care Access and Demand
Jessica H. Brown, an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of South Carolina, tests whether areas desi…
Count What Matters: Building Data Infrastructure for Early Childhood Systems
This resource is designed for state and local policymakers, agency leaders and staff, and advocates working to stre…
Care Innovation Hub
The Care Innovation Hub is a living collection of the people, programs, and policies redefining what care looks like in America — from child care a…
Announcing the 2026-2027 PAYA Youth Council
Meet the 2026–27 PAYA Youth Council and the young leaders advancing youth apprenticeship nationwide.
The Quiet Dismantling of Head Start: How the Trump Administration Is Using Regulation to Reshape a Program It Can’t Eliminate
The forthcoming proposed rule seems designed to hollow out the program from within.
The AI Race Is a Clash of Mythologies
The US-China AI race is usually framed as a contest of compute and capabilities. The deeper divergence is mythological: America’s frontier lo…
