As families choose child-led approaches like Montessori, Reggio Emilia, and nature-based preschools, these models are ...

Back when my kids were in preschool, I used to get a slight headache whenever I visited their classrooms because of the kaleidoscope of stuff that decorated the walls. From the letters of the alphabet ...

Everybody is talking about high quality preschools but few folks know what high quality preschool looks like—especially for literacy development. The following checklist can be used to evaluate ...

Michigan could spend more on education in a couple priority area under the governor's final state budget propposal. But results for state assessments and absentee numbers among the state's littlest ...

Yelena Hagooli has done everything possible to give her 4-year-old son the best start in life. She took him to the library every week, fed him the healthiest foods, left her job to care for him, and ...

Many young children have some degree of farsightedness—an ability to see objects far away more clearly than objects that are close up. Health providers are divided on whether moderate farsightedness ...

New research finds preschool teachers' use of sophisticated vocabulary can predict fourth-grade reading comprehension and word recognition. Preschool teachers' use of sophisticated vocabulary and ...

Children who attend preschool enter kindergarten with greater skills than those who don't, but that advantage is nearly halved by the end of the year as their counterparts quickly begin to catch up, ...

Massachusetts will invest $850,000 in developing preschoolers’ literacy skills, the Healey-Driscoll administration announced Wednesday. The money, to be split among four organizations, will better ...

A kindergarten teacher at Jefferson Elementary has received a REACH grant to enhance literacy instruction.

New federal data shows about two-thirds of the nation’s 3- to 5-year-olds are on track to enter kindergarten. The effort to ...