All Social Justice for Young Children Conversation Series Resources (cont'd)

“It takes a village.” We’ve all heard it, we’ve all said it, and it’s true.

“At the end of the day, we do it for our children.

A vast body of research shows that children of Color withstand harm in schools via policies and practices specifically designed to protect White interests.

Put yourself in the shoes of a student who speaks another language — an American-born child of immigrants in Los Angeles, an “unaccompanied minor” who recently arrived in Phoenix, a child of refugees in a rural town in Maine.

Child poverty more than doubled from 2021 to 2022, children and their parents are now losing health care coverage, and child care programs across the country are at heightened risk of closure — all because successful pandemic-era policies have ended or are ending.

The Foundation for Child Development works at the nexus of research, policy, and practice to improve the lives of young children.