This fall, millions of 5-year-olds donned backpacks full of school supplies for the first time as they headed off to kindergarten. Depending on where they live, however, these children are having ...

Jordan Riley, 4, builds a tower with magnetic blocks during his state-funded afternoon class at the Creative Montessori Children’s Learning Center in East Palo Alto. Jordan’s grandfather, Willie Riley ...

A best-selling book in 1986 by author and minister Robert Fulghum, “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten,” was a collection of short essays that showed how the lessons we were taught in ...

CLIFTON PARK — One of the last holdouts in the state for half-day kindergarten is now adding a full-day preschool option for a small cohort of students. But despite a full-day school option now being ...

Campaigning for the presidency in 2008, Barack Obama pledged to help states implement taxpayer-funded universal preschool--preschool for all.[1] The President's early education plan, for which he has ...