Corrected: This story should have cited Victoria Stebbins Frelow, a graduate student at Teachers College, Columbia University, as one of the three authors of the study. Thirty-nine states and the ...

California is poised to be the first state to adopt a set of standards, which state officials call “learning foundations,” for English-language development devoted to preschool ELLs, according to ...

EdSource · From a juvenile facility to a college dorm room In the summer of 2021, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the rollout of universal preschool across the state of California through the expansion of ...

Gov. Gary Locke and state schools chief Terry Bergeson have introduced voluntary guidelines for preschoolers, intended to better prepare kids for kindergarten and beyond. The new recommendations ...

Early childhood educators, parents and others across Wyoming now have access to an important tool to help children from birth through kindergarten. A collaborative, statewide effort involving the ...

SOMERVILLE — Gone are the days when going to preschool meant scribbling with crayons and learning to write your name. Children in the Somerville Preschool Program now do science experiments and simple ...

California state-funded preschools meet only four of the 10 quality preschool standards developed by the National Institute for Early Education Research, according to a report released Monday.

A preschooler at the Carrie Murray Nature Center Forest Preschool fills a bucket with water from a stream in Leakin Park. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one ...

The trend in early education is to move from a play-based curriculum to a more school-like environment of directed learning. But is earlier better? And better at what? On a perfect Southern California ...

The NJ State Board of Education President Arcelio Aponte, pictured here in 2010, opened the formal process of reviewing and adopting the core curriculum standards at a meeting Thursday in Trenton.

Brandyn Boyd doesn’t want to spend her entire day telling children to pay attention. Instead, at Magnolia Forest Preschool, Boyd has the opportunity to watch children explore, experiment and ...