State and local lawmakers hosted a roundtable discussion to discuss the lack of child-care funding in the region.

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

Singing the ABC song. Learning the days of the week from a nursery rhyme. Making a finger-painted collage of little handprints. Arts education has always been center stage in early education because ...

Opened in July 2025, the WIU Bilingual Early Learning & Family Center offers a high-quality, university-aligned early learning experience for both native Spanish-speaking and non-Spanish-speaking ...

Start Early advances quality early learning for families with children, before birth through their earliest years, to help close the opportunity gap. The first five years of a child’s life are ...

Matt Whittle has experience writing and editing accessible education-related content in health, technology, nursing and business subjects. His work has been featured on Sleep.org, Psychology.org and ...