Be sure that your preschool is asking kids to be responsible for their lunches, snacks and gear from home. “By the end of preschool, most kids can take on full responsibility for all of three items,” ...

Your child's preschool days are filled with social, emotional, physical, and intellectual development. The cognitive skills learned at this stage—like basic counting and vocabulary—may seem simple, ...

Campaigning for the presidency in 2008, Barack Obama pledged to help states implement taxpayer-funded universal preschool--preschool for all.[1] The President's early education plan, for which he has ...

What is the best way to help poor schoolchildren succeed at math? A study now sheds light on the ways preschool activities may -- or may not -- help children develop cognitive skills. What is the best ...

Researchers studied verb learning in 3-year-olds, finding that those who napped after learning new verbs had a better understanding of the words when tested 24 hours later. Research has shown that ...

California has made a new grade, transitional kindergarten, available for all four-year-olds. LAist reporters spent a day in ...

A preschooler at the Carrie Murray Nature Center Forest Preschool fills a bucket with water from a stream in Leakin Park. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one ...

In the spring of 1975, Sue Schultz and Emily Connor went to the Board of Directors at Temple Israel to propose they start a ...

Kindness is not an academic subject like reading or math but it's still an important skill to instill in children. Some kids at The Learning Experience day care in Oak Creek ...

A preschool that fosters learning through play looks around. Classrooms are well lit, multicolored, and abound with materials ...

You know that look kids get the first time they see snow? Pure magic. That’s exactly the vibe a Snowflake Sensory Bin brings ...