This story was originally published by The Daily Yonder. Chris Nelson teaches preschool in rural Vermont, just a few miles from the Canadian border, but not in the school or child care center most ...

Home-based child care is too often misunderstood and undervalued. It’s not babysitting — it’s early childhood education. Home-based providers are trained professionals, licensed small business owners ...

When legislators think about the childcare sector, they must be mindful of family childcare as well as childcare centers. For many families, childcare centers are unaffordable and hard to access. Home ...

Opening a home-based child care program is on the path to becoming easier for providers. The House Committee on Municipal and ...

Across the state of New York, home-based childcare programs outnumber center-based by more than two to one. They are a vital ...

A video alleging fraud in Somali-run child care centers in Minneapolis has drawn attention throughout the United States. In ...

EdSource · How a California professor once coded secrets in music (rebroadcast) I retired from the practice of family child care last December after 29 years. That same month, I attended a funeral for ...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Lakethia Clark has spent most of her adult life taking care of children, first at a church day care and later in a child care center. She loves children, but after 15 years, she was ...