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Jackie Mader

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Jackie Mader 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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Want resilient and well-adjusted kids? Let them play

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How to help young kids: Give their parents cash

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Help us track child care challenges

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Finding child care is still impossible for many parents

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How can we improve early science education? New report offers clues

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

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Cracking down on unsafe infant sleep products

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

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Kids’ access to recess varies greatly

Avatar photo by Jackie Mader May 12, 2022May 12, 2022
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Is recess a right or a privilege?

Avatar photo by Jackie Mader May 7, 2022June 2, 2022

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