Sara Mead
Opinion Contributor
Community Colleges Are Crucial for Kids
Community colleges play a key role educating early childhood workers.
Denying Kids a Head Start Is Wrong
A Trump proposal to punish immigrants who send their U.S.-born children to Head Start is deeply troubling.
Common Sense Care for Girls
Providing free menstrual products in middle-school bathrooms is both easy and common sense.
The Great Degree Debate
Should preschool teachers be required to have college degrees? It's a more complex question than you think.
The Tax Bill Is No Gift for Kids
Congress wasted an opportunity to address America's child care costs – and may have made the problem worse.
A Good Decade for Head Start
The 2007 Head Start Act kept an important program moving in the right direction.
Zero-Sum Thinking Hurts Education
Political and policy debates should promote shared progress for American children.
Ivanka's Tax Credit Won't Help Kids
Ivanka Trump's child tax plan spreads subsidies broadly and thinly – and ultimately ineffectively.
#DCPublicSchools Is Only a Trend
Praising public education on social media doesn't equate with real support.
Close the Preschool Gap
Too often, 3-year-olds fall through the cracks in early childhood education.
