Kendra Hurley

2025 Research Roundup: 3 Pressing Themes Shaping Early Care and Education Noteworthy research themes, studies and data that early care and education experts say are essential to moving the field forward.

Noteworthy research themes, studies and data that early care and education experts say are essential to moving the field forward

Why conservatives should pay parents to stay home Conservatives want more parents at home. Here’s how to do it.

my Vox debut...a topic I've wanted to write about for a long while: www.vox.com/policy/47363...

Excited for this launch and honored to have contributed to the coverage

My heart is still beating so fast.

Thank you @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social

Thank you @bloomberg.com and especially the CityLab team @kristoncapps.bsky.social @nicflatow.bsky.social and David Dudley

Stories here! www.bloomberg.com/features/des...

Excerpt from Rutgers University Senate resolution calling for a Mutual Academic Defense Compact. The excerpt reads: "BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the Rutgers University Senate urges the President of Rutgers University to formally propose and help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC) among all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, under this compact, all participating institutions shall commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund. This fund shall be used to provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement;"

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

I am a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission. Earlier today, the president attempted to illegally fire me. This is corruption, plain and simple. I will see the president in court. My full statement:

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

I enjoyed the chance to talk to @kendrahurley.bsky.social about some of the impacts of COVID on early learning and child care.

One little talked about note - how many more of the reporters covering the issue had firsthand experience w/child care challenges than in the past.

How COVID Shaped Child Care and Early Learning The pandemic temporarily devastated American child care. Five years later, a number of effects have rebounded, but experts say challenges persist.

For @the74.bsky.social and @earlylearningnatn.bsky.social, I talked with experts about the surprising legacy of COVID on early learning and child care. www.the74million.org/article/how-...

We Live in a Big City. When I Let My 12-Year-Old Go Out Without Me, We Learned an Unfortunate Lesson. Some adults have been kind. Others treat him like a problem.

My son turned 12 a little over a year ago, & just as he became eager to experience the world on his own, that world began to regard him differently. Here's what I learned that year about cities & how people treat young teens when parents aren't watching. slate.com/life/2025/03...

Love this! Teens are people too!

We Live in a Big City. When I Let My 12-Year-Old Go Out Without Me, We Learned an Unfortunate Lesson. Some adults have been kind. Others treat him like a problem.

You may be surprised at how grown-ups treat teens when parents are not watching. For Slate, I wrote about this and other things I learned about cities the year my son turned 12.
slate.com/life/2025/03...

more, please!

Burned Out Parents Need Better Public Spaces To ease the burden on families, we need places to let the kids roam free.

“Urban areas, built right, could support families by making their lives easier - one courtyard, speed bump and playground at a time”

Great piece from @langealexandra.bsky.social exploring the many ways places could be better for children, young people and parents.

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How D.C. tackled a child care crunch through a tax hike on the rich In Washington, D.C., a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.

In Washington, DC, a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers.

Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.

KinderCare Is Now Trading on the Stock Market. What Does That Mean for the Future of American Child Care? - Early Learning Nation There was a major shift in the child care landscape in October, but you’d be forgiven for not noticing unless you happen to be a regular consumer of Wall

NEW: In @earlylearningnatn.bsky.social, I wrote about what we can learn from KinderCare’s recent IPO & the disclosures they were required to make as part of the process. There are consequences to combining a profit-maximizing motives and human service like child care.

Home-based daycare is a crucial childcare solution. So why are cities shutting providers down? Home-based daycare owners say they face outdated and discriminatory regulations that shut down their businesses and leave working parents in the lurch.

Was able to include some little known history here about home-based child care stepping up to compensate for govt shortcomings: first after Nixon vetoed public child care, then when welfare reform of the '90s decimated informal care networks. www.fastcompany.com/91213564/why...

Any studies out there on tax revenue lost due to school choice policies? Because in a gig/freelance economy the hit on work is real!

Child-related tax credits received soon after childbirth can have enduring benefits, including higher earnings for children as adults. For Early Learning Nation, I look at why receiving cash during a baby's first year matters so much. earlylearningnation.com/2024/02/new-...

Remote work is the best thing to happen to parents with young kids in forever, & no one claiming to have families' backs has any business saying otherwise. But for some investor-backed child care chains, that's now part of business.

My latest in Slate
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best day in NYC

One unexpected thing in my qualitative study w natural scientists (one-hour interviews) is how deeply, deeply sad the climate scientists are. They say things like "you have enough information from us, why won't anyone act?" -- the psychological distress these people are enduring is very great.

My first story for Slate is personal, & years in the making: I look at how, when schools fail to teach reading, it erodes trust in schools. Thankfully, the bad ideas that got us into this mess are on their way out. I say, good riddance! slate.com/human-intere...

hi, i'm new here! first posts are intimidating so getting this out of the way ripping off a band-aid style