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Mark Swartz

Mark Swartz writes about efforts to improve early care and education as well as developments in the U.S. care economy. He lives in Maryland.

Community Health Workers Can Play a Key Role in Keeping Families Healthy

Mark Swartz

Engaging Local Leaders Is Key to Helping Young Children and Their Families Thrive

Mark Swartz

Child Care Centers Embedded in Empty Classrooms Support Teachers, Schools

Mark Swartz

Early Educators and Child Care Providers Seek Legal Advice on Immigration

Mark Swartz

A New Documentary Makes a Powerful Case for Early Education

Mark Swartz

How Intergenerational Day Centers Benefit Children, Families, Seniors and Providers

Mark Swartz

Big Ten Early Learning Alliance Shines a Light on Early Childhood Data Solutions

Mark Swartz

Philadelphia Pilot Program Pays Home-Based Child Care Providers $500 Every Month

Mark Swartz

Philanthropic Partnership Aims to Expand Access to High-Quality Child Care

Mark Swartz

How a Local Early Learning Collaborative Is Centering Belonging to Better Support Families With Young Children

Mark Swartz

‘Collective Caregiving’: A New Way to Frame the Dialogue Around Better Supporting Kids and Families

Mark Swartz

Simplicity, Visibility and Tangible Child Care Solutions: Q&A With Bainum Family Foundation’s Marica Cox Mitchell

Mark Swartz

Coaching as Mutual Learning: How First Up Supports Philadelphia’s Child Care Workforce

Mark Swartz

Care for All: Key Lessons for Child Advocates from the Broader $648 Billion Care Economy

Mark Swartz

Agents in Their Own Learning

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways from the CGLR Conversation: AI and the Early Childhood Workforce

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways from the Child Trends Conversation: Next Generation Leadership for Black Child and Family Well-Being

Mark Swartz

How Crystal Rountree is Deepening the Cross-Generational Magic of Jumpstart

Mark Swartz

Summer Brain-Building Tips for Parents and Caregivers

Mark Swartz & Art Hondros

New Report: How Supercharging the Child Tax Credit Benefited Young Children, and What Comes Next

Mark Swartz

QUALITYstarsNY: Growing the Empire State’s Child Care Sector

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways from Start Early’s Advocacy & Policy Community of Practice Webinar

Mark Swartz

The U.N.’s International Day of Play vs. ‘An Inhuman World’

Mark Swartz

New Report: Convergence’s ‘In This Together’ Offers Framework for Families with Children

Mark Swartz

Faith-Based Child Care Activism in Minnesota: Because Kids Count on Us

Mark Swartz

The Spirit of the Studio: A Reggio Emilia Concept Takes Root in America

Mark Swartz

Virginia (Finally) Embraces Kinship Care

Mark Swartz

5 Top Takeaways from the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading Webinar: Philanthropy and Public Financing for Children

Mark Swartz

What Inspires You to Work on Behalf of Young Children?

Mark Swartz & Art Hondros

Partnership for America’s Children Nurtures a New Generation of Advocates and Leaders

Mark Swartz

Extending the Experience: Digital Promise’s Approach to Technology

Mark Swartz

Ahead of the Game: How the American Rescue Plan Act Rescued One Maryland Family Care Program, and What Comes Next

Mark Swartz

Play Is a Child’s Search for Meaning: Q&A with Brenda Fyfe

Mark Swartz

New Report Shows There’s Room for Improvement in Navigating a More Equitable Arizona

Mark Swartz

Robin Hood’s Child Care Quality and Innovation Initiative: “There Is No Better Investment”

Mark Swartz

The Re-Education of Uché Blackstock, the Doctor Disrupting ‘Medical Apartheid’

Mark Swartz

Paying Up: Enhancing Child Care Compensation Systems in Colorado, D.C. and Louisiana

Mark Swartz

Kim Janey’s Systemic Approach to Supporting Bostonians and Families Nationwide

Mark Swartz

ParentCorps Builds Relationships from the Ground Up

Mark Swartz

7 Reasons to Be Encouraged about the Planet Our Children Are Inheriting

Mark Swartz

Lost in the Policy Woods? Finding Your Way to Equity and Access with the Zaentz Navigator

Mark Swartz

An Environmental Health Scientist’s Recipe for Giving the Next Generation a Safe Future

Mark Swartz

Making the Bipartisan Case for Child Care: the Industry that Keeps America Working

Mark Swartz