Preschool & Kindergarten

Summer dip, summer slide – call it what you want.  The research is compelling enough to cause concern. Most students will experi...

Until last week I thought I had a good handle on issues of early child development.

I am the father of two now-adult children;...

A year ago, Lexa and Jake Hawkins spent weeks making a tough decision.

Their son, Caleb, was 4 and would turn 5 in August. The...

Kristina Leeb-Lundberg, an early-childhood education professor, told a true story of five-year-old Mary who went to the park wit...

Middle-class children hear 33 million words by the time they start school – 23 million more than poorer children of the same age...

A few days ago, I asked a group of public school kindergarten teachers what they thought about homework. I wasn’t surprised when...