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K.C. Compton

K.C. Compton worked as a reporter, editor and columnist for newspapers throughout the Rocky Mountain region for 20 years before moving to the Kansas City area as an editor for Mother Earth News. She has been in Seattle since 2016, enjoying life as a freelance and contract writer and editor.

Heat, Floods, Storms Limit Outdoor Play for Young Children, Surveys Show

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RAPID Celebrates Five Years of Surveys

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Preschool Enrollment, Spending Hit Record Highs, but Access and Quality Gaps Persist

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Cash Transfers: A Proven Strategy to Improve Outcomes for Children and Families

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Freshman College Enrollment Actually Increased Last Year, Corrected Report Finds

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Number of Freshmen Enrolling in Undergraduate Programs Sees Notable Decline

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Parents and Caregivers Are Vital to Children’s Early Learning and Development

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‘Music Zoo’ Gives Preschoolers an Up Close and Personal Experience of Music-Making

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Stress Hormones In Preschoolers Improve With Emotional Knowledge, Study Indicates

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Helping Children Make Sense of Their World through Science

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Green Spaces: A Vital Key to Young Children’s Mental Well-Being

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Book Review: How to Raise a Viking — The Secrets of Parenting the World’s Happiest Children

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Connecting Children’s Vocabulary to Knowledge through Science and Shared Book Reading

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The Ensemble Effort that Pays Big Dividends in Babies’ Language Development

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Nurses versus Ascension: Hard-Fought Victories for Better Maternal and Infant Care

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Finding a Home for Family Child Care in Publicly Funded Preschool

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Carnegie Hall’s Lullaby Project Helps Parents Write Love Songs to Their Infants

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Research Study: Perception of Neighborhood Safety Can Shape Infant and Maternal Outcomes

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Study: Health Insurance Differences Can Cost a Baby’s Life

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The Key to a More Civilized Society? It Might Start with Grandparents

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Research Says It’s Better to Follow a Baby’s Lead: Attempts to Teach a Baby Can Backfire

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Pregnancy and Shackles: Birth Behind Bars Marked by a Patchwork of Policies and Neglect

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America’s Child Care Food Programs: Available and Too-Often Unused

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Poverty Tracker Documents the Difference New York’s Universal 3-K Program Makes for Mothers in the Work Force

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Book Review — Child Care Justice: Transforming the System of Care for Young Children

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New Paper: Aligning Early Years and Climate Change Strategies Can Drive Action on Both Fronts

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UnidosUS: Arming Fathers with Facts to Support Their Children’s School Success

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Study: We Can Change Minds — and Mindsets — About the Value of Early Childhood

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Hot Days Impact Kids’ Activity Levels and Health

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Tennessee on Track to Become First in Nation to Offer Diaper Benefit to Medicaid Families

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Book Review — Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth

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Generation Hope: One Desperate Teen’s Story Grows into Hope for Hundreds

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Pathways Early Learning Center: High-Quality Early Education for Kids Dealing with Homelessness

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Doula Services: Michigan Offers Medicaid Enrollees a Powerful Boost for Better Childbirth Outcomes

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Good Learning Needs Good Nutrition: A Fundamental Value for the Educare Learning Network

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In Babies’ Brains, White Matter Is Crucial — and Conversational Turns Make It Grow

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Book Review — No Longer Welcome: The Epidemic of Expulsion from Early Childhood Education

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Book Review — Who’s Raising the Kids: Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children

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Neighborhood Villages: The Pathway to Professionalism is Paved with Apprenticeships

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Boston’s New Office of Early Childhood Takes a Systemic Approach to Fixing a Broken System

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Sparks Parent Video Series: Seven Minutes of Reassurance for New Parents and the Residents Who Care for Them

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New Study: A Call to Action to Include Non-English Speakers in Pediatric Research

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Valley Settlement: Deep Listening Tour Becomes Targeted Programming for Colorado Community

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Mount Sinai Pilot Project: Creating a Culture Shift in Pediatric Health Care

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Study Provides High-Tech Window on Mother-Child Brain Synchrony

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Neighborhood Villages: Boston-Based Child Care Innovation Lab for Solutions that Can Scale

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Book Review — Wanting What’s Best: Parenting, Privilege and Building a Just World

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Keywords and Coffee Fuel In-Depth Studies of Environmental Education in Early Childhood

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Book Review — The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain

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New Resource Offers Roadmap for Informing, Evaluating Farm to Early Care and Education Programs

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Book Review — Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

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Book Review — Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit

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Recent Study Suggests Head Start Programs Provide Effective Intervention in Addressing Childhood Obesity

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Breaking Poverty’s Grip: New Head Start Study of Second-Generation Statistics Show It Can Be Done

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Reading Their Way to Better Parenting: Baby Book Projects Show It Can Be Done

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Learning to Read Online: It’s Possible, Doable and Could Involve Chicken Hats

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Connoisseurs of Silly: Babies Start Laughing Early — And They Think Your Material Is Great

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Where Have All the Fathers Gone in Child Language Research?

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Babies Are Surprisingly Altruistic — When They Know You Need Help

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Chronic Stress Can Affect Preschooler’s Resilience and Self-Control: Sensitive Parenting Can Mitigate Those Risks

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Latinx Fathers Speak Their Babies’ Love Language, Though They Might Not Realize It

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Clear the Dance Floor: Baby Steps Happening Here

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Babies are Naturals at the Fine Art of Taking a Fall — And It Doesn’t Even Slow Them Down

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NISO + Eastside Pathways: Training Community Members to Become Agents of Change

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Method to the Motion Between Mothers and Toddlers: Synchronized Movements Pave Way for Children’s Interactions with Bigger World

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Philadelphia’s Childspace: Pioneering Cooperative Fosters Women, Workers and a Powerful Possibility for Child Care

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Eastside Baby Corner: At Work for a World Where All Children Are Safe, Healthy and Have What They Need

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Grandmothers: Beyond Babysitters, They’re the Bedrock of Human Evolution

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Winter is Coming. Keep the Wonder Alive with Mini Adventures Close to Home.

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Transition to Fatherhood: A Profound Passage that Should Be Protected

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PopUp StoryWalk Combines Great Stories with the Great Outdoors

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Beyond ‘Good Job’ – Praise that Pulls for a Child’s Growth and Development

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Scientists from the Start: Babies Are More Thoughtful, More Analytical than You’d Ever Imagine

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Babies Love That Special Way You Talk to Them — In Any Language

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Book Review — Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty

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Crying is Easy; Laughing is Hard

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For Want of a Diaper, Families Are Getting Lost: No Diapers. No Day Care. No Job.

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Researchers Connect Cardio Health and Cognition — Even as Early as Preschool

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Vocabulary for the Win with Conversational Turns

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Book Review — What the Eyes Don’t See: Fueled by Idealism, Backed by Science

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Zero to 3: Never a Better Time to Learn a Second Language

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Infants the World Over Can Spot a Lullaby — in Any Language

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Las Vegas Takes Its Show on the Road to Provide Quality Pre-K to Child Care Deserts

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Alabama First Class Pre-K: Setting the Standard Nationally for 14 Years — and Counting

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‘Ten Birthday Cakes? We’ll Take Care of It’

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Parents Are Made, Not Born, Research Shows: The Act of Caregiving Creates ‘Parenting Brain’

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Deploying the Power of Talk for Toddlers Reaps Academic and Social Rewards As They Become Adolescents

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This Book Is Cool! Program Fights the Summer Slide and the COVID-19 Slump

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Learning Early to ‘Taste the Stillness’ Can Set a Child Up for Lifelong Well-being

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Reduce Mothers’ Stress Now to Improve Mental Health for the Next Generation

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Leading by Example on Race to Mitigate Impact of Racism on the Health and Well-Being of Children

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Roots of Empathy: Where Children Learn the Language of Getting Along

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High-Quality Early Childhood Education for All Children: A Doable Dream

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Using Policy to Plant a Powerful Future for New Mexico’s Children

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The Ooh-and-Coo Duet of Babies’ Language Learning

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Geography and Race, State by State, Can Determine the Fate Of Both Mother and Baby

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What a Difference Extended Hours Child Care Makes

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Teaching Kindergarten Conference: Giving Teachers What They Need for Learner-Centered Classrooms

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To the Stars and Beyond from a Tower of Blocks

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Facing Facts, Finding Solutions in the Race Against Black Postpartum Depression

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Rising Economic Tide Fails to Lift the Country’s Littlest Boats

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Asset-Informed Care: Seeing People as More than the Worst Thing That’s Happened to Them

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Playful Learning Landscapes

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Little Peepers Forest Preschool: Learning the World Just Outside the Doorway

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Early Childhood Alliance Onondaga: A Master Class in Cross-Sector Coalition Building

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Waving Toys, Scanning Brains to Gain Unprecedented Information About How Babies Learn Language

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How Babies’ Brilliant ‘Onboard Computers’ Sort Language From Sound Soup

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Tiny Trees Preschoolers Get to Know Their World, Rain or Shine

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The Mind-Building Magic of a Muddy Childhood

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Why Don’t We Just Do That?

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Transforming Parent-Child Connections in Incarceration

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Mapping the Future in Baby Steps — State of Babies Yearbook: 2019

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