We know too little about the child care problem we’re spending billions of dollars to solve. To make good policy in a crucial area, we need more reliable data.

Katharine Stevens and Matt Weidinger propose allowing parents to advance future child tax credits into the earliest years of their child’s life, strengthening families' ability to choose how and by whom their children are cared for during the formative first years of development.

Rather than seeking to outsource young children’s care to paid professionals, policy should aim to better enable parents to spend more time caring for their young children themselves, especially in the critical first five years of life.

Biden’s American Rescue Plan constitutes a substantial scale-up of government spending on nonparental, out-of-home care for young children, which poses an unrecognized risk to the well-being of children and families.

Katharine Stevens joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss President-elect Biden’s ambitious childcare and pre-K plans.

For the centennial anniversary of the Women's Bureau, three childcare experts join Katharine Stevens for a special webinar on family childcare. What is uniquely valuable about home-based childcare? What is causing its decline? How can we restore this crucial sector — especially in a post-COVID-19 world?

Leaders from Wonderschool join Katharine Stevens to explain their new technology-based initiative for family childcare networks, which was named one of Fast Company’s 10 most innovative education companies of 2019.

Small in-home centers care for fewer kids at a time, which means less opportunity for disease transmission — and more opportunity for small-business owners.

For the centennial anniversary of the Women's Bureau, three childcare experts join Katharine Stevens for a special webinar on family childcare. What is uniquely valuable about home-based childcare? What is causing its decline? What is needed now to restore this crucial sector — especially in a post-COVID-19 world?

High-quality early care — whether at home, a childcare center, or grandma’s house — matters greatly to young children’s healthy development. But to get the economy going again, the critical problem is care for school-age children.

Nobel laureate James Heckman recently made waves among early childhood advocates when he said he is not a promoter of universal pre-K. In this episode, Katharine Stevens joins Ian and Naomi for a riveting discussion on James Heckman’s research and the case for providing targeted, high-quality care to disadvantaged children rather than universal pre-K.

Katharine Stevens joins Brent Orrell to discuss how high quality child care matters to the quality of both the current and future workforce.

New Horizon Academy CEO Chad Dunkley sits down with Katharine Stevens to explain what's key to providing high-quality childcare, the important role of for-profit providers, and what he sees as a constructive federal role in ensuring good childcare for all children who need it.

What Detroit desperately lacks isn’t school for 4-year-olds. What it lacks is high-quality child care for the city’s youngest, most vulnerable children.

Katharine Stevens joins a panel of experts at the Centennial Institute for a discussion of market-based policies that strike a healthy balance between family wellbeing and a prosperous economy.

The Preschool Development Grants B–5 program is perhaps the federal government's most thoughtful and comprehensive approach to early childhood care and education to date — and a notable departure from previous federal initiatives.

A scientific revolution is changing the way scientists and researchers think about how early life experiences affect genetic predispositions.

Katharine Stevens joins a panel of experts to analyze the proposed Promoting Affordable Childcare for Everyone (PACE) Act and discuss other approaches to increasing the affordability of child care for low-income American families.

While PACE Act supporters claim that it will “promote expanded access to affordable child care for everyone," it will actually do zero for the families who need help most.

Today’s early care and education programs must have two purposes. First, support parents’ work in a 24/7 economy, and second, advance children’s healthy growth and learning during the most crucial period of human development.