Childcare & Early Education

November 17, 2010

I remember when I first started teaching sometime in the late 1800s when one of the moms of one of my 4th graders came to the class to apologize. She had always been The Room Mother for her kids, but this year she was working outside the home, and she was apologizing...

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Lily Eskelsen

Childcare & Early Education

November 16, 2010

Week-long, world-wide event features 387 sessions and 60 keynote addresses focused on education technology and global classroom initiatives. The inaugural Global Education Conference, a week-long event bringing together educators and innovators from around the world, will be held Monday, November...

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Homa Tavangar

Childcare & Early Education

November 10, 2010

I recently talked with a mom whose seven-year-old son, Jacob, would become enamored with girls at school and wouldn’t take “no” for an answer. Once he fell for a girl (usually a year or two older) he’d transform into a little stalker, relentlessly wanting to play with them, constantly trying to...

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Joe Newman

Childcare & Early Education

November 9, 2010

While the election is still being pondered by political pundits, real life goes on... including the struggle of real life parents to get affordable access to quality early care and education for their kids so they can get to work. But that struggle may get a lot tougher. In the next few weeks,...

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Sarah Francis

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health Health Care

November 4, 2010

Political pundits are spinning away in the wake of the elections, making guesses about what the election results say about the will of the voters. But it's too critical a time for our country to let the paid pundits have the last word. Moms (and dads!) know more than any political pundit about what...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Childcare & Early Education

November 3, 2010

Every seven seconds, a baby is born in the United States. Recent Census data suggest that more of these babies than ever before are born into poor families. Yet poverty, let alone the extremely high rate of childhood poverty, wasn’t part of the public discourse this election season. Poverty is...

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Danielle Ewen

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education Open Flexible Work

October 31, 2010

From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org I was at Rutgers University on October 19th for the "What Mothers Want" conference and it was a mamapalooza of the first order. It'd be hard to say who was the more interesting - the experts...

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Valerie Young

Childcare & Early Education Paid Sick Days Realistic & Fair Wages

October 31, 2010

Recently, Speaker Nancy Pelosi participated in a Tweetchat organized by MomsRising. The questions poured in from a diverse group of participants. Dozens of individuals, bloggers, organizations, media and even a fellow legislator (Rep. Rosa Delauro) joined in to chat about everything from the latest...

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Anita Sarah Jackson

Immigration Childcare & Early Education

October 29, 2010

My dreams for my children since they were in the womb have been that they would receive a good education and use their talents to be of service to humanity. So it came to be. They are now businessmen contributing to society with jobs and services that help grow our economy. They are husbands and...

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Luz Villafana

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education Paid Sick Days Open Flexible Work

October 29, 2010

by Robert Drago and Jeffrey Hayes New data collected for the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) by Precision Opinion finds widespread support across party lines, gender, race and ethnicity for policies that will assist working families and protect workers’ rights, especially for low...

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