We’ve never seen kids go in there until today. That parking lot is empty all the time, and I was under the impression that ...

Head Start is celebrating its 60th year, but the program has faced funding disruptions, a federal government shutdown and ...

Hopefully these young minds will grasp onto some of these concepts and will go home and around the dinner table talk to their ...

How can we design e-learning materials to accommodate and engage all learners? Some learners have dedicated time and space for learning, while others study on the go. Some like freedom to explore – ...

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Parents visiting their children’s kindergarten class for the first time may think they’ve arrived at the wrong room, especially if they expect it to resemble the kindergarten they attended as ...

New findings from the University of Virginia show children who attended public Montessori preschool demonstrated better reading ability, executive function, short-term memory and social understanding ...

Play-based learning in kindergarten is not new, but it has not been common in public schools. This fall Tumwater School District, in line with its newly adopted Strategic Plan, begins to incorporate ...

When Krystyna Kalishevskyi emigrated from Ukraine with her family last year, she had experienced more trauma and fear than a 4-year-old can cope with. Going to school in California was a big challenge ...

Learning in early childhood is full of wonder. It spirals, loops back, deepens, and stretches forward in rhythms that are anything but linear. Ask any preschool teacher who has watched a child master ...

Last week, Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read released results of an Audits Division investigation that found four preschools squandered hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars meant to provide ...