Four early childhood leaders join Katharine Stevens to discuss their vision for more effective program-family partnerships in a post-pandemic world.

Large proportions of the nation’s most vulnerable children lack access to high-quality child care. Instead of pushing a big government expansion of child care, that is the emergency we should urgently be aiming to address.

We know too little about the child care problem we’re spending billions of dollars to solve. To make good policy in a crucial area, we need more reliable data.

Four educators from disadvantaged communities in California’s Bay Area join Katharine Stevens to discuss the challenges and effects of virtual teaching.

As a third COVID wave sweeps the United States, achievement gaps between higher- and lower-performing students are widening. A national tutoring program is our best chance for averting an educational disaster.

We need good schools now more than ever. But it’s hard to see how they’ll be any better after COVID than they’ve been for decades before it.

Learning loss has been extensive during the pandemic, hurting some students more than others. Katharine Stevens joins the National Press Foundation for an in-depth conversation on how to close schools' growing COVID inequality gap.

Paul Gessing and Katharine Stevens discuss the impact of COVID 19 on children's learning. Katharine also shares findings from her recent report, "Still Left Behind: How America’s Schools Keep Failing Our Children," and explains why universal pre-K will not solve our nation's persistent education achievement challenges.

High-quality early care — whether at home, a childcare center, or grandma’s house — matters greatly to young children’s healthy development. But to get the economy going again, the critical problem is care for school-age children.