From cutting and counting fruit to fun treasure hunts, CHALK Preschool's April Schafer shares her best tips to promote education at home As director of CHALK Preschool, April Schafer knows a thing or ...

Three weeks into our extended coronavirus spring break at home, my husband wanted to discuss what we should be teaching our 4-year-old son. Every week had a different topic. One week it was space and ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with reporter Anya Kamenetz about an Arabic-language remote learning program called "Ahlan Simsim." It's a show by the Sesame Workshop, created for Syrian refugees. Over ...

Fun and learning combine with this set of Free Printable Valentine Preschool Worksheets. Includes twelve educational Valentine’s themed activities for younger kids. Valentine’s Day is just around the ...

As pressure to raise scores on standardized tests has trickled down to the lower grades, kindergarten and even pre-kindergarten classrooms have focused more on academic skills. But debating whether a ...

The largest-ever humanitarian intervention in early childhood education shows that remote learning can produce results comparable to a year of in-person teaching. The other day some preschoolers were ...

Quickstep Dance Studio and Little Steps Preschool are not just about dance or school. They are about helping kids grow into ...

This post originally appeared on Common Sense Media. When kids’ TV shows bill themselves as educational, lots of parents take their word for it. But how many of these shows are backed by ...

At one preschool, sign language is part of the daily curriculum, helping even the youngest learners communicate and stay ...

Erika Christakis is an early-childhood educator (formerly at the Yale Child Study Center), a Massachusetts-certified teacher (for pre-K through 2nd grade), and a licensed preschool director. Her work ...

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 ...

The trend in early education is to move from a play-based curriculum to a more school-like environment of directed learning. But is earlier better? And better at what? On a perfect Southern California ...