From Scientific American: “Play provides an opportunity to build social (communication and collaboration), emotional (resilience and self-regulation) and physical (fine and gross motor) skills, as well as cognitive ones.” Read the full article here. View more articles here.
From USA Today: “The academic, physical and mental upsides associated with returning children to schools outweigh the risks, the American Academy of Pediatrics concludes.” Read the full article here. View more articles here.
From The Hechinger Report: “The reality is Covid-19 will be with us for a long time, and providers will be unlikely to reach their pre-Covid capacity levels any time soon.” Read the full article here. View more articles here.
From USA Today: “Child care is not funded to serve all children who are eligible, and it’s not funded to provide rates that ensure quality care for all eligible children.” Read the full article here. View more articles here.
From Sarasota Herald-Tribune: “Nationally, the maternal mortality rate among Black women is more than three times higher than for white women — a rate that hasn’t decreased over multiple decades.” Read the full article here. View more articles here.