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Author Archives: Jackie Mader

Jackie Mader supervises all photo and multimedia use, covers early childhood education and writes the early ed newsletter. In her ten years at Hechinger, she has covered a range of topics including teacher preparation, special education and rural schools. She previously worked as a special education teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina, and trained new teachers in Mississippi. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, USA Today, TIME and NBC News and has won several awards, including the Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Nellie Bly Award from The New York Press Club and a Front Page Award from The Newswomen’s Club of New York. In 2021, she was one of two American journalists chosen for the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma’s Early Childhood Development Fellowship. She received a bachelor’s degree from Loyola Marymount University and a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

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Posted inEarly Education

Post-Roe landscape could further stress America’s crumbling child care system

by Jackie Mader August 5, 2022August 5, 2022

In 2008, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco launched a study to track the effects of being denied an abortion on women who sought to end their pregnancies. For five years, they monitored the socioeconomic and health-related outcomes of around 1,000 women who tried to attain an abortion between 2008 and 2010; some […]

Posted inEarly Education

Cracking down on unsafe infant sleep products

by Jackie Mader June 29, 2022June 28, 2022
Posted inEarly Education

Researchers looked at how early STEM stereotypes begin for kids. They found them every step of the way.

by Jackie Mader June 2, 2022June 1, 2022
Posted inEarly Education

Kids’ access to recess varies greatly

by Jackie Mader May 12, 2022May 12, 2022
Posted inEarly Education

Is recess a right or a privilege?

by Jackie Mader May 7, 2022June 2, 2022
Posted inEarly Education

More employers offering child care benefits to lower-wage workers

by Jackie Mader May 5, 2022May 5, 2022
Posted inEarly Education

States stuck trying to fix early ed pay as feds drop the ball

by Jackie Mader April 21, 2022April 21, 2022
Posted inEarly Education

The child care worker shortage is reaching crisis proportions nationally. Could Milwaukee provide the answer?

by Jackie Mader April 13, 2022April 14, 2022
Posted inEarly Education

Kids can learn more from guided play than from direct instruction, report finds

by Jackie Mader March 24, 2022March 24, 2022
Posted inEarly Education

Behind the findings of the Tennessee pre-K study that found negative effects for graduates

by Jackie Mader February 2, 2022February 2, 2022

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