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How the military went from having childcare in Quonset huts and stables to being the “premier” system — and why don’t more people study it?

In a recent Hechinger Report series on childcare in Mississippi, writers Jackie Mader and Sarah Butrymowicz asked what it would take for that state to transform its childcare into a top system. They pointed to the remaking of the U.S. military childcare system as an example of such a turnaround. The military’s childcare revamp is […]