The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats, first published in 1962 by The Viking Press, has the simplicity of a haiku poem. The story is about Peter, a boy who lives in an apartment in the city, and his ...

Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell is the White House Correspondent for "The Daily Signal." Send her an email. The nation’s largest teachers union recommends that educators begin teaching the concepts of ...

While Congress continues to debate whether to pass Build Back Better and make public pre-K universally available, many states are making investments to strengthen the quality of their existing early ...

For the past 15 years, one of the nation’s brightest landscapes for prekindergarten has flourished in an unlikely place. Alabama First Class Pre-K stands out in the South, where investment in ...

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As early childhood researchers, we’ve spent our careers steeped in an enormous body of work that documents the long-term positive impacts of quality early care and education on the lives of those ...

If you’re a pre-k classroom teacher, you know what a challenge it can be to keep students engaged for the duration of their class. With classes leaning more towards a traditional learning environment ...

In 2015, a study released by Vanderbilt University inspired a new wave of questions surrounding the long-term impacts of pre-kindergarten programs. The report analyzed the results of Tennessee’s ...

This article originally appeared on NextCity. It was reported in collaboration with the Philadelphia Public School Notebook, an independent, nonprofit news service that serves as an information source ...

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Today, New York City’s 1.1 million public-school students return to their classrooms—or, in the case of about seventy thousand four-year-olds enrolled in the city’s pre-K program, go to their ...

I've been watching with interest as New York rolls out its first phase of $340 million statewide universal early childhood education plan this autumn, and as Chicago debates how it will get its ...