NC Early Childhood Foundation’s Executive Director, Muffy Grant, had the opportunity to discuss the decline in preschool and kindergarten enrollment that has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly for families with incomes below $25,000 dollars. In the interview, Muffy…
What if you could go online and see a snapshot of what’s happening in key policy and practice areas that help to ensure every child in North Carolina is on the path to reading on grade-level by the end of…
Loretta Boniti from Sprectrum News spoke with Muffy Grant, Executive Director of NC Early Childhood Foundation, and Susan Perry, Chief Deputy Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services about how families are navigating child care and…
Are you fascinated by the brain development of young children? Do you get that literacy is a proxy for child and family well-being? Are you driven by a commitment to racial equity, health, and educational justice? Do you enjoy writing…
The NC Early Childhood Data Advisory Council (ECDAC) convened for its quarterly meeting on May 27, 2021. The meeting focused on moving forward with NC’s data development strategy, considering data implications of COVID-19 for the NC Early Childhood Action Plan,…
While learning loss estimates due to the pandemic may differ, there is agreement that children need to keep learning all summer long. Parents still need support to keep their children learning during the summer, especially to tackle learning loss associated…
Driving down Interstate 95 into Johnston County, North Carolina, you can see change everywhere. Much is still rural, home to the largest number of farms in NC, and proudly the nation’s top sweet potato-producing county. Cotton and soybeans grow as…
The national Campaign for Grade-Level Reading (CGLR) recently recognized Read Charlotte as a 2021 Bright Spot community for its response to the COVID crisis last year.
Specifically, CGLR is highlighting communities that developed exemplary or innovative responses to the…
National early childhood organization ZERO TO THREE recently released their State of Babies Yearbook: 2021. The report compares national and state-by-state data on the well-being of infants and toddlers in three domains: good health, strong families, and positive early learning…
Each year NC Child reports on the state of children’s well-being in NC based on publicly available data. Their 2021 data dashboard provides a snapshot of how our children (2.4 million from birth to age 18) were faring before the…