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In Jodie Murphy's kindergarten class in Aston, Pennsylvania, math lessons go beyond the basics of counting and recognizing numbers. On a recent morning, the children used plastic red and yellow dots ...

An early education nonprofit is partnering with a philanthropic organization to help hundreds of Colorado preschool children get a jump start on reading, math and science. The Daniels Fund, which ...

More than half of Louisiana children from poor families start kindergarten without basic reading skills — and most fail to catch up by third grade, a critical year for literacy development, according ...

California is one of 32 states that doesn’t require 5-year-olds to attend school.