Research has shown that investing in high-quality early childhood education can generate as much as a 13% return on investment, delivering benefits that help businesses, communities and the people who ...

Teachers can use moments when children express curiosity as entry points to foster deep learning within planned lessons.

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 ...

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 ...

Anna North is a senior correspondent for Vox, where she covers American family life, work, and education. Previously, she was an editor and writer at the New York Times. She is also the author of four ...

Pre-K teacher Renee Bryant teaches a gingerbread lesson in the fall of 2022. This story first appeared in James Farrell's weekly Education newsletter, out Mondays. Sign up here to get it first to your ...

PROGRAMMING NOTE: We’ll be off for Thanksgiving this Thursday and Friday but back to our normal schedule on Monday, Nov. 29. NEXT STEP, PREPARE THE PRE-K WORKFORCE — The House passed President Joe ...

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 ...

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When Faye Hammoud heard from her child care provider that she could enroll her son into free, state-funded preschool, she thought it was too good to be true. The 33-year-old Dearborn Heights resident ...