Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In joyful preschool classrooms, three- and four-year-olds play and pretend together. They sing and dance, listen eagerly at story ...

Teachers play a crucial role in fostering children’s success in school. Policymakers must consider ways to support and prepare high-quality teachers while aligning expectation and opportunities for ...

High-quality early childhood and elementary education form an important foundation for young children to be successful throughout school, but evidence suggests that children lack consistent access ...

Elementary schools and preschools need to foster children’s conversational and listening skills as they teach them to read and write, a national group urges in a new set of standards. For More ...

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The month of June marked transitions for many of our students, but few more so than the very youngest. This month, thousands of 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds completed their first years of formal education ...

When Darien Richardson decided it was time to put her 4-year-old child into an early learning program, she was greeted with what seemed like a never-ending waitlist. “It felt like there were constant ...