Preschool & Kindergarten

Every year, millions of well-intentioned American kids show up at kindergarten or first grade woefully unprepared to learn. Some...

President Obama’s plan for universal preschool is as ambitious and crucial as his healthcare reform commitment, maybe more so. C...

President Obama visited a preschool here Thursday to tout early education for all 4-year-olds from low- and modest-income famili...

James J. Heckman is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. He shared the ...

It sounds great. But can the president’s plan survive contact with the real world?

I said in my last post that the president w...

The state’s new $2.75 million WaKIDS program is intended to assess the skills of children entering kindergarten to help teachers...