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Early Childhood Education Media Coverage & Mentions

NAEYC is a leading voice in early childhood education. This page highlights recent articles and media coverage showcasing our work in advancing high-quality early learning, supporting educators, and shaping education policy nationwide.

2026 NAEYC Media Highlights

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2025

12/22/2025 Bladen Community College to Host Child Care Academies to Train Future Teachers
12/19/2025 ‘We need to fix it’: Providers say NH’s early education quality system isn’t quality at all
12/12/2025 Dolores school board celebrates preschool accreditation, discusses hiring processes
12/7/2025 After-School Care in High Demand for North Carolina Parents
11/24/2025 Inside the Race to Hire and Retain America’s Early Educators
11/19/2025 Blueprints for the Future: How Research, Policy, and Innovation Can Grow Readers in the Age of AI
11/18/2025 Despite challenges, child care looks to innovate in North Dakota
11/12/2025 NH Community Colleges Work to Grow Early Care and Education Workforce
11/7/2025 Georgia Head Start programs among hardest hit in nation by government shutdown
11/1/2025 Child care crisis deepens as funding slashed for poor families
10/30/2025 New Mexico Charts a Path for Universal Child Care
10/29/2025 Facing rising costs, families skip child care altogether
10/22/2025 Rising insurance costs put Central Florida childcare centers in jeopardy
10/16/2025 Former Whitewater business owners look to address child care gap with $10 million donation
10/15/2025 Avon Grove School District Launches Early Learning Lab to Inspire Future Educators
10/15/2025 West Haven schools looking to expand pre-K program, with officials saying 'it's high time'
9/29/2025 As Pre-K Expands, Here’s What Districts Need to Know
9/17/2025 Child Care Scholarships Help Families Experiencing Sudden Household Disruptions
9/10/2025 US State Becomes First To Offer No-Cost Universal Child Care
9/9/2025 Louisiana Early Childhood Teacher Oral History Project Reaches 100+ Interviews from Early Childhood Educators
9/9/2025 Vermont’s Child Care Campaign sets next priorities
9/1/2025 Child care is broken. Bay Area power couple’s PBS documentary ‘Make a Circle’ shows why
8/12/2025 Keeping kids safe in extreme heat: Experts outline threats to childhood development, school challenges, play-time risks
8/7/2025 Why is child care so expensive? Owners share unique costs and challenges of the business
8/4/2025 Lessons from the military for solving North Carolina’s child care crisis
7/31/2025 Does the child care crisis keep you up at night? It should
7/31/2025 JBM-HH Child Development Center Earns Top Marks in Recent Inspection
7/29/2025 Child care needs support to survive
7/24/2025 Staffing shortages at child care centers might worsen under 'Big Beautiful Bill,' experts warn
7/23/2025 The W launches program to tackle Mississippi’s pre-K teacher gap
7/20/2025 Some States Are Seeking to Deregulate Child Care. Advocates Are Fighting Back
7/17/2025 It is time for Pennsylvania to address the child care teacher staffing crisis
7/12/2025 First Things First: How to help young kids grow more independent
7/4/2025 National Early Childhood Education Champions attend Vermont’s celebration of leadership and advocacy
7/1/2025 Children should hear 21,000 words a day. A Birmingham literacy program is trying to make that happen
6/26/2025 Across Party Lines, Stakeholders Are Calling for Regulatory Reform in Child Care
6/26/2025 Miami Children's Museum Becomes First Children's Museum in the Nation to Earn Full Accreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children
6/26/2025 Legislature loosens child care staffing requirements, looks for other cost reductions without new funding
6/23/2025 Preschool students relish the outdoor learning environment at San Antonio’s Zoo School
6/2/2025 Everett’s pending Early Learning Center closure a window into child care crisis
6/1/2025 Helping youth move from climate anxiety to climate action
5/25/2025 Senate advancing bill to recognize early childhood educators as professionals
5/19/2025 EdNC’s analysis of models to provide early childhood education on the campuses of community colleges
5/7/2025 Threatened Medicaid cuts would hobble Iowa's child-care workforce
5/2/2025 National Skills Coalition Launches Care Workforce Advisory Council
5/1/2025 RELEASE: States Can Reform Child Care Regulation Without Endangering Children’s Safety
4/22/2025 Nest Preschool first to achieve national Accredited+ status in the Grand Valley
4/17/2025 Conservatives have a plan for cheaper day care. But is it safe?
4/15/2025 Desert Resilience: Fort Irwin Celebrates Military Kids in April
4/13/2025 Razor-thin: Day care costs a fortune, no one is getting rich
4/11/2025 Alabama childcare workers report increasing burnout, turnover: Survey
4/8/2025 How to Encourage Your Child's Language Development at Every Stage
4/7/2025 Rockford mayor declares week-long celebration of early childhood development programs
4/2/2025 Child development center gives URI a unique presence in downtown Providence
3/31/2025 Why the Dire State of the Early Learning Workforce Is ‘Alarming and Not Surprising’
3/30/2025 Trump administration guts child care office, leaving centers in limbo
3/28/2025 Observing and monitoring behaviors early can set kids up for long-term well-being
3/20/2025 95,000 Texas children are waiting for state help to pay for day care
3/14/2025 Navigating How and When to Use Tech When Teaching Young Children
2/27/2025 Idaho Moves to Deregulate Child Care in First-of-Its-Kind Legislation
2/23/2025 Dramatic changes in early childhood centers affect churches too
2/19/2025 Why don’t early childhood programs have access to substitute teachers?
2/19/2025 Could Play Boost Students’ Math Performance?
2/13/2025 CSUF professor’s children’s story about LA wildfires offers facts and reassurance
1/29/2025 Federal Funding Upheaval Is Harmful for Children, Parents and Educators
1/29/2025 Even More Affordable Childcare Costs Surged 50%, Survey Finds
1/23/2025 3 global early ed trends to watch this year
1/10/2025 “All Our Future Money Is Gone”: The Impossible Task of Providing Child Care in Rural Illinois
1/6/2025 Resources to help families struggling with childcare crisis

2024

12/26/2024 GPB's Top Education Moments Of 2024
12/20/2024 Parents on the hunt for child care
12/6/2024 Remembering Barbara Bowman
12/4/2024 What is Licensing and Accreditation for Daycare?
11/26/2024 Surging insurance costs are threatening the future of child care
11/26/2024 A crisis within a crisis: Insurance rates skyrocket for child care centers
11/22/2024 Barbara Taylor Bowman, leader in early childhood education efforts, dies at 96
11/18/2024 Early Childhood Leaders Tour CSUF Children’s Center
11/17/2024 Why Spontaneous, Hands-On Learning Should Be Encouraged In Every ECE Classroom
11/14/2024 How Parents Can Help Kindergarten Readiness
11/5/2024 Understanding and supporting early childhood educators
10/31/2024 How Research Can Help Us Better Understand And Support Early Childhood Educators
10/29/2024 Early childhood education marked as priority for legislative session
10/16/2024 Preschools Teach ‘Hardly Any Math’, Even as Students Struggle in Later Grades
10/2/2024 Rising Liability Insurance Costs Pose an “Existential Threat” to Child Care Providers
9/27/2024 Strengthening the Early Childhood Educator Workforce: Addressing Gaps and Investing in Professional Development
9/26/2024 New Report on Pandemic-Era Funding Shows 'Childcare Crisis Is a Policy Choice'
9/24/2024 New research to test validity of an early learning curriculum
9/19/2024 As Texas endures triple-digit heat, how are children impacted?
9/19/2024 Perspective | Where community colleges and early childhood education collide
9/7/2024 How to pick a preschool without becoming overwhelmed
9/5/2024 Preschoolers, parents and first separations: How to work through it
8/25/2024 Letter writer: We must recognize and honor the needs of children and childcare providers
8/20/2024 Where Has All the Childcare Gone?
8/13/2024 Jennifer Olson: We are early childhood educators
7/30/2024 Amid child care crisis, OSU takes baby step to boost workforce
7/22/2024 Low pay is driving away Louisiana's early childhood education teachers, survey says
7/6/2024 Early childhood education is a necessity; we must work together to bring it to every child
6/29/2024 Is 24 Preschoolers in a Classroom Too Many? Colorado Will Soon Decide.
6/21/2024 EdsUp! Episode 62: Michelle Kang
5/23/2024 NC leaders, agencies talk about the 'childcare crisis' in rural communities
5/6/2024 More families struggle to find child care after federal support dried up
5/6/2024 Exclusive: More parents lack child care after federal funding "cliff"
4/29/2024 Inside America's child care as parents, providers sound alarm
4/18/2024 New bipartisan bill seeks to tackle national child care shortage with help from the Pentagon
4/10/2024 A $9.4B loss: Texas restaurants, businesses pursue child care reform with economic lens
4/10/2024 Some Dallas child care providers receiving tax relief this fall to expand access
4/4/2024 For families needing the most help, child care cost are about to drop
4/5/2024 Fort Worth child care center among Texas programs receiving millions from PNC Foundation
4/2/2024 For families that need the most help, child care costs are about to drop
3/28/2024 Changing Education Could Change the Climate
3/18/2024 Can AI Aid the Early Education Workforce?
3/4/2024 Biden's plan to increase educator pay could mean fewer kids in class
2/29/2024 Child care is becoming more costly and less available where federal funds have run out — but state investment can help
2/27/2024 Is the end of federal relief money worsening a child care crisis?
2/25/2024 With Pandemic Money Gone, Child Care Is an Industry on the Brink
2/13/2024 As pandemic aid winds down, states scramble to fill gaps
1/12/2024 Early Efforts | The State of America's Child Care Industry in the Absence of Federal Relief Dollars
1/10/2024 Child care experts offer optimism amid growing challenges
1/10/2024 Bridging the gap between preschool policy, practice, and research

2023

12/20/2023 Listening to America – The Childcare Cliff
11/14/2023 Legislators say child care pay should be priority next session
11/8/2023 Vermont Association for the Education of Young Children hosts annual childhood educators conference
10/24/2023 Federal child care relief just expired. Costs are already skyrocketing
9/30/2023 Pandemic Relief Funding for Child Care Is Ending. What Now?
9/25/2023 25 Ohio organizations sign on to letter urging Congress to continue expanded child care spending
8/23/2023 A wave of child care center closures is coming
8/11/2023 We Need Better Pathways for Becoming an Early Childhood Teacher
6/21/2023 Child Care Disruptions Expected as Record Funding Nears an End
3/21/2023 What Will It Take to Build a Sustainable Early Care and Education System in the US?

2016-2021

11/11/2021 Lessons learned: How early education programs stepped up during COVID-19
8/31/2021 Lessons on Child Care, From the Military
5/18/2021 Child care at core of women's slow post-pandemic return to work
3/10/2021 $40 billion for child care
3/10/2021 Pandemic recession: Invest in child care to help women return to the workforce
3/6/2021 SAPCC to celebrate 'Week of the Young Child
2/16/2021 After mass closures, too little support, post-pandemic child care options will be scarce
2/3/2021 Here is how the Biden, GOP stimulus plans would help moms amid coronavirus pandemic
12/30/2020 Over 1 in 4 child-care providers nationwide still remain closed
12/21/2020 Congress proposes $10 billion in relief for the child-care industry, but advocates say it’s only a ‘down payment’
11/17/2020 As the Pandemic Drags On, Child Care Providers Fight to Keep Their Doors Open
10/2/2020 Mothers in the workplace at a 'tipping point' amid the pandemic, child care crisis
10/2/2020 Where are all the kindergartners? In a pandemic, some parents aren’t enrolling them in public school.
09/30/2020 Getting Back To Work: Child Care An Issue For Families
09/16/2020 'Now, Before It Is Too Late'
09/16/2020 Educators find strategies fostering SEL, play for youngest students as coronavirus continues
09/8/2020 School Is Off To A Slow Start, And It's Going To Be A Long Year
09/8/2020 COVID-19 Has Nearly Destroyed the Childcare Industry—and It Might Be Too Late to Save It
09/7/2020 Researchers Warn Nearly Half Of U.S. Child Care Centers Could Be Lost To Pandemic
09/1/2020 How the government failed working parents—and which policies could help
08/9/2020 The coronavirus means San Antonio parents have to make choices this fall — and some have more options than others
08/5/2020 Most parents don’t want to send their kids back to school this fall
08/4/2020 Why Are Child Care Programs Open When Schools Are Not?
08/4/2020 Many Childcare Centers To Close Without Government Assistance
08/3/2020 ETSU professor publishes new book for early childhood educators
08/2/2020 With remote back-to-school, child care challenges for providers, families emerge
07/17/2020 Proposed Senate bill promises up to $50 billion for day cares
07/16/2020 A push to help childcare facilities in crisis due to coronavirus
07/15/2020 40% Of U.S. Child Care Centers Say They'll Close Permanently Without Public Assistance
07/9/2020 Viewpoint: It takes a village to reopen child care
07/9/2020 Child Care Associates seeking national accreditation
07/2/2020 Child care is essential to reopening the economy
06/22/2020 Coronavirus is pushing the US child care industry to the brink of collapse: Advocates
04/5/2020 Our fragile child care ‘system’ may be about to shatter
03/24/2020 Child care providers keep working amid COVID-19 crisis; call for government assistance
03/03/2020 National Governing Board Member, Tamara Johnson Receives 2020 Black Excellence Award
02/14/2020 Why Aren’t We Paying Early Childhood Educators What They’re Worth?
11/16/2018 Panelists stress need for educators to play dual role as pre-K policy advocates
10/3/2018 Experts: Bullying partly driven by development, self-regulation
5/21/2018 Benefits of early childhood education becoming clearer
3/30/2018 How Much Playtime Does A Child Need? Probably More Than You Think
12/6/2017 Parenting Matters: A meaningful, positive beginning in math
5/27/2017 Tips for an Educational Family Vacation
1/24/2017 Advice from NAEYC on Improving Early Math Fluency & Strengthening Future Math & Finance Skills
8/30/2016 The 2016 National Back-To-School Guide: Free Resources for Students & Teachers
6/7/2016 Skill Levels Remain Issue in Pre-K Staffing
5/19/2016 Why Young Kids Learn Through Movement

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