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Jonathan Cohn’s recent article for The New Republic highlighted the tragic outcomes stemming from our inadequate, unequal, and largely unregulated child care system. Stressed by workplace demands and constrained by a dearth of good daycare options, families face difficult decisions. Many child care workers are poorly compensated and inadequately trained, and most workplaces are not set up to support parents desperate for better options. With limited public resources devoted to creating high-quality care facilities, millions of young children miss out on valuable early educational opportunities, and their parents struggle to thrive in the workplace.

Join us on May 13^th for a conversation with Jonathan Cohn and a panel of experts about the “hell of American day care” and an examination of potential strategies to improve our early education system more broadly. What type of changes would best help children to achieve greater academic and social outcomes? Which structures would work best for parents striving for economic stability and a better future for their children? The panel will also consider the promise of “two-generation” strategies, those that simultaneously address the needs of parents and children, to provide early educational opportunities and support for parents participating in the workforce.

The program will be live streaming on the event webpage for those who are unable to attend in person.  

On Twitter? Join the conversation by tweeting with the hashtag #fixingdaycare.  

Participants

Jonathan Cohn 
Senior Editor, The New Republic
Author,“The Hell of American Daycare”

Karen Kornbluh
Former Ambassador, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

Director, Early Education Initiative, ������Ƶ Foundation

Schwartz Fellow, ������Ƶ Foundation
Reporter, The Washington Post

Moderator

Director, Asset Building Program, ������Ƶ Foundation