Two new initiatives are evaluating preschool curricula, making the case that programs designed to teach the youngest learners deserve the careful scrutiny that materials aimed at older students ...

Is preschool worth it? Policymakers, parents, researchers and us, at NPR Ed, have spent a lot of time thinking about this question. We know that most pre-kindergarten programs do a good job of ...

A GEORGIA SCHOOL has found an ingenious way to teach its youngest students about rhymes. By using an interactive whiteboard, Dug Gap Elementary School in Dalton, part of the Whitfield County School ...

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An ad hoc committee will research and analyze pre-K curriculum quality for children ages three through five. The study will result in a final report, including findings and recommendations to guide ...

For decades, Florida faced criticism for judging the quality of its pre-K program on a “readiness” test given to young students after they started kindergarten. It was a system, critics argued, that ...

Today, New York City’s 1.1 million public-school students return to their classrooms—or, in the case of about seventy thousand four-year-olds enrolled in the city’s pre-K program, go to their ...

Some of the nation's top researchers who've spent their careers studying early childhood education recently got together in Washington with one goal in mind: to cut through the fog of studies and the ...

While research shows early childhood education can benefit students well into their academic careers, there isn’t a lot of information on how these educators in pre-kindergarten classrooms can best be ...

The pandemic affected enrollment for pre-K and 3-K. Now, some believe the city should ramp up efforts to enroll new children. By Troy Closson and Raúl Vilchis Since arriving in New York from Ecuador ...

LIHUE (HawaiiNewsNow) - Another public preschool classroom has opened on Kauai to help expand access to early education. King Kaumualii Elementary in Lihue is now the fifth out of Kauai’s nine public ...