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Working Families Summit Recap
On Monday, I joined President Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden at the Omni Hotel in Washington D.C. for the first ever White House Summit on Working...
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Office of Science and Technology Policy Spotlights the Importance of Early...
Editor’s Note: This guest blog was written by Child Care Aware of America staff member Michelle McCready. Michelle is our Director of Public Policy, a working mother to her young son, Aiden, and a...
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President Obama Signs Child Care and Development Block Grant into Law
Just before noon today, President Obama signed into law the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014. The bill, which provides child care assistance to families and funds quality initiatives...
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President Obama visits the Sunflower State to Talk about Quality, Affordable...
By: Leadell Ediger, Executive Director, Child Care Aware of Kansas: When an email from the White House came into my inbox, I paid attention! That’s the situation I found myself in, in mid-January. I...
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New Report Could Be a Game Changer for the Child Care Workforce
IOM (Institute of Medicine) and NRC (National Research Council). 2015. Transforming the workforce for children birth through age 8: A unifying foundation. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press....
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Playing Pretend…With Math!
A post from our partners at Sesame Street Join your friends at Sesame Street for a FREE online course for early childhood educators entitled Make Believe with Math. This self-paced course is designed...
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Talk, Read, Sing – Start Early With Children to Fight the Word Gap
“We know that right now during the first three years of life, a child born into a low-income family hears 30 million fewer words than a child born into a well-off family. By giving more of our kids...
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Read Where You Are!
Child Care Aware® of America (CCAoA) is happy to join in the effort to prevent the “summer slide” by signing on to the Read Where You Are campaign put together by the Department of Education!...
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Kristy Whitley and the Mount Moriah Child Development Center – July 2015...
Congratulations to Kristy Whitley and the deserving staff at Mount Moriah Child Development Center in North Carolina – July 2015 Provider of the Month! We’d all love to have a child care provider who...
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For Your Back to School List: Take Action This August
As August winds down and we get ready for a new school year we all have plenty of tasks to cross off our “Back to School” list – getting school supplies, nailing down school and activity schedules,...
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