This item originally appeared on the Early Education blog. A worryingly small number of college programs that train students to become early-childhood educators actually focus on the important parts ...

Berol Dewdney, a pre-K teacher and Maryland’s 2023 teacher of the year, says she starts each year trying to build consistent routines with her students. Credit: Image provided by Berol Dewdney The ...

The U.S. spends a lot of money on preschool — billions of dollars each year. When invested wisely, research suggests the costs are justified by significant returns to society, including savings from ...

If preschool training is great for rich kids in nursery school and for poor kids in the Government’s Head Start program, why shouldn’t every parent get busy and give his child a head start at home?

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 ...

Amid our current hyper-partisan climate, it seems nearly impossible to get American policymakers to agree on anything. And if a policy does garner widespread support, it's even harder to write ...

Earlier this fall, I visited Emma Markarian’s prekindergarten classroom in the Bronx to see some 4-year-olds in action. The 15 preschoolers spread out to different activity centers across the ...

This Pre-Student Teaching Candidate Handbook includes information that answers the most frequently asked questions concerning policies and procedures that serve as the guidelines for the mandated ...