Preschool & Kindergarten

A team of researchers in the UK has shown that although social background has a noticeable effect on a child’s readiness for sch...

For everyone who finds mathematics incomprehensible, boring, pointless, or all of the above, Glen Whitney wants to prove you wro...

Previous research says on average, children living in poverty are less well prepared to start school than children from middle-i...

Babies are pre-programmed to start learning to communicate from the day they are born. If they could talk, they would say “speak...

The field of education is contentious and resistant to innovation or change.  There seems to be a growing sense that the problem...

Home learning experiences that are consistently supportive in the early years may boost low-income children’s readiness for scho...