It's been my son's first week of kindergarten and let's just say Mom was more stressed about it than he was. And unfortunately, anxiety and panic appear to be incompatible with coherent blogging, so ...

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 ...

Literacy lessons for kindergarteners taught by Colorado master teacher Tori Teague. In response to school closures across Colorado, Rocky Mountain Public Media in partnership with the Office of the ...

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 ...

The days when kindergarten focused on playing and finger painting may be waning, according to a new University of Virginia study, as early-learning classrooms devote significantly more attention to ...

The first lesson of Kitten Kindergarten is that there is such a thing as Kitten Kindergarten. “When I told people at work I was coming here, no one could believe it even existed,” said Brian Skarin of ...

Evanston–Skokie School District 65 has adopted a radical gender curriculum that teaches pre-kindergarten through third-grade students to celebrate the transgender flag, break the “gender binary” ...