NAEYC promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.
This is an excerpt from the upcoming NAEYC book No Single Story: Amplifying the Voices of Asian American and Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander Early Educators, Native Hawaiian by educator Nicol Russell.
There is a moment every early childhood educator knows. A child is deep in play, completely absorbed, doing something that looks, to an untrained eye, like nothing in particular.
NAEYC promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.
NAEYC promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.
Incredible learning unfolds in infant and toddler settings. The period from birth to age 3 represents a time of vast and exciting change as children move from early milestones to more advanced physical achievements.
Mayor Bowser’s proposed Fiscal Year 2027 budget eliminates the salary component of the Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund, a $60 million cut that would directly affect more than 4,000 educators.
In April 2026, the White House released its fiscal year 2027 budget request, providing insight into the President’s priorities for the year ahead, including federal early education programs like the Head Start and CCDBG.
Families are eligible for child care subsidies only if their assets do not exceed $1 million, as self-certified by the applicant. However, federal statute or regulations do not further specify which assets should be included or excluded.
The Spring 2026 issue of Educating Young Children is focused entirely on the preschool-to-kindergarten transition and reading it this week hit me differently than it might have at any other time.
The survey results and accompanying testimonies demonstrate a clear crisis of affordability for the early childhood education field and the children and families they serve.
You care deeply about early childhood education. You see how policies affect children, families, and educators every day. But advocacy can still feel intimidating.
Celebrate 100 years of early childhood education with three simple activities for your program, plus reflection ideas and music to bring learning to life.
In the Summer of 2025, Congress passed H.R. 1 - or “the One Big Beautiful Bill” or the Reconciliation legislation - which included a number of changes to Title IV of the Higher Education Act.
NAEYC's Susan Friedman, Annie Moses, and Meghan Salas-Atwell emphasize the importance of choosing a high-quality preschool curriculum and how NAEYC's DAP resources guides help navigate the false dichotomies.
James L. Hymes Jr., a professor of education in New Paltz, New York, wrote the opening excerpt in an article reflecting on the first 25 years of the National Association for Nursery Education, NAEYC’s predecessor.
Nearly forty years ago, attendees at NAEYC’s 1987 Annual Conference were invited to visit Vivian Gussin Paley, the teacher and writer who contemplated children’s stories and fantasy play.
