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

It looks like a simple toy puzzle. But when it comes to preschool, it is so much more. This puzzle – with it's brightly colored wooden pieces – teaches children about shapes, colors and numbers. But ...

Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an effective way to teach counting might be by … not counting. That’s the ...

What’s a civic assembly? It’s a process by which a small group of residents get together and work out solutions to thorny ...

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

How can parents in Mechanicsburg tell if their preschooler is ready for kindergarten? A HelloNation article provides helpful answers, outlining how a strong preschool curriculum, Mechanicsburg, PA, ...

Washington will nearly double the number of available slots for a state program that provides free prekindergarten child care ...

Kindergarten might be the new 1st grade but it is still too easy. A forthcoming study in the peer-refereed American Educational Research Journal finds that students make bigger gains in reading and ...

Kindergarten in the United States is not what it used to be. For one thing, it’s longer. In 1998, only about 56 percent of children attended full-day kindergarten. Today, that figure is 80 percent, ...