Preschool & Kindergarten

Six months before five-year-old Gaby was due to start first grade, her mother, Rebecca, was confronted with the horrible realiza...

The first kindergarten was established in 1856. And, early childhood education has been gaining ground ever since. As researcher...

Hint: Don't tell your kids that they are. More than three decades of research shows that a focus on effort—not on intelligence o...

Early school success seems to depend largely on children entering school ready to learn, and many policy initiatives have highli...

Children who arrive at school knowing letters and numbers do better

Children who start kindergarten with a basic grasp of numb...

An educational study unprecedented in scope finds that children who enter kindergarten with elementary mathematics and reading s...