The Alliance for Early Success is a 50-state resource for early-childhood advocates as they pursue the big, sustained impact that will ensure every child in every state, birth through age eight, has an equal chance to grow, learn, and succeed.
JUNETEENTH 2024 REFLECTION The Alliance for Early Success is joining our neighbors in a celebration of freedom and a renewed commitment to dismantling the pervasive legacy of slavery.
Zero to Five Montana is improving early education by helping to protect the languages of the state’s 12 Native American tribes. It’s an effort to enrich children, support early educators, and draw on the experience and expertise of the larger community. Young children experience a better understanding of their own cultural identity when they can learn their tribal language, and this cultural knowledge helps heal some aspects of generational trauma that many indigenous families live with.
As the Alliance for Early Success joins our neighbors across the country in the commemoration of Juneteenth, we also mark the enduring impact of slavery and the ever-present ways it shapes the ways we live today. Racism remains entrenched in our country’s systems – both in our policies and in the comfortable habits that perpetuate inequity.
As we kick off Black History Month, the Alliance for Early Success celebrates the achievements and legacy of Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, America’s first Black female medical doctor.
The Alliance for Early Success joins our neighbors across the country in the commemoration of Juneteenth, the century-old-at-least holiday celebrating the real end of American enslavement – the day, two years after emancipation, that the last enslaved Americans learned of their freedom.
This May, which is nationally recognized as Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, we lift up the story of two parents whose 19th-century advocacy for their own children opened the schoolhouse doors for countless more.
ARAB AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH SPOTLIGHT: As the nation kicks off Arab American Heritage Month, we’re spotlighting one of the country’s fiercest champions for young children, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, who uncovered the Flint Water Crisis and has not stopped advocating for the city’s children.
In 1929 ,Dorothy Howard founded the Garden of Children, the first nursery school in the District of Columbia, and one of the earliest in the country, for Black children.For black history month, early education takes the spotlight.
WEBINAR The Alliance is joined by Jonathan Metzl, author of the best-selling Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland. He has done extensive research on voters who oppose health policies that would benefit them, and his presentation to early childhood advocates encourages them to understand “zero-sum” solution perceptions.
Elevating parent voices is a powerful form of advocacy. As allies have knowledge of the policy process, parents have lived experiences and insight on what is wrong and can be improved. Allies gathered to learn from peers how states are working to include parents in their policy development and advocacy strategy.
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