NC Early Childhood Foundation shares recommendations for how to educate new legislators on early childhood issues.

The National Report Card shows a significant number of children have "below basic" reading skills. But why, and what can parents do?

The most effective parenting combines standards and expectations with guidance and emotional support to raise children who ...

When educators are able to provide support and flexibility in classroom learning, it can help students and their families ...

Children start to learn in utero, months before birth. They hear their mother sing or talk, and their brain neurons connect to identify separate sounds, or phonemes, like “ma.” During their first year ...

Exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), including abuse, neglect, and household challenges, have harmful implications for long-term health and mental health outcomes.1 Indeed, ACEs are one ...

EdNC is 10 years old! Our annual report and a case study present our work to date on behalf of our students, state, and ...

It’s important to be an optimist. But sometimes, it can be challenging, especially when facing a problem that affects so many people and seems too complicated to solve.

Posts about baseless theories — ranging from celebrity involvement to secret government weapons — have racked up millions of views. Despite fact-checking efforts, researchers say conspiracies ...

Still, survival rates can vary a great deal depending on the type of cancer and other factors. Survival rates for a specific type of childhood cancer can be found in our information for that cancer ...

Conspiracy theories like these have run rampant over the years. Scientists have directed considerable scrutiny in their direction to understand their characteristics, why people find them ...

and identifies environmental risk factors during early life. A cutting-edge molecular approach provides a detailed picture of the biological pathways associated with childhood obesity and ...