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 ...

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 ...

EdSource · This California Teacher of the Year embraces her dwarfism as a strength In efforts to reduce the number of suspensions and expulsions, last year the California Department of Education ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

There’s a dizzying array of childhood programs, schools and child-care options — all with slightly different names and definitions — which can be confusing to parents trying to make decisions about ...

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.