The push to expand pre-kindergarten programs is on. Last school year, public pre-K programs received their biggest-ever boost in state funding. Enrollment in state pre-K programs nationwide increased ...

GREENVILLE — LaVonda Paul, who has been in the child care business for 19 years, makes mental notes of her students’ shoe sizes. The families who come to Paul’s child development center in Greenville, ...

When Wendy Lundeen began teaching transitional kindergarten over a dozen years ago, it was seen as an unconventional option to help prepare children to one day enter elementary school. Fast forward 13 ...

With clipboards on hips and iPads in hand, three women treated a residential Houston street as their own strategic war room. "Where else do we have blue dots around this school that we think are going ...

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 ...

KENTUCKIANS. TODAY, KENTUCKY’S GOVERNOR ANNOUNCED HIS NEW STATEWIDE CAMPAIGN, PRE-K FOR ALL, DURING A STOP IN LOUISVILLE. GOVERNOR BESHEAR SAYS THE GOAL IS TO BOOST PUBLIC EDUCATION AND JOB GROWTH.

A little more than a decade ago, Bill de Blasio, then the New York City public advocate preparing a run for mayor, sat at a window table in Bar Toto in Park Slope with his policy adviser Ursulina ...

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 ...

Final rules for Texas’ private school voucher program recently clarified that families interested in sending their children to private pre-K could receive an estimated $10,800 per year, the same ...