Whether you’re hoping to get a head start, trying to avoid the fees associated with preschool or looking for ways to keep your preschooler engaged while at home, setting up an educational play space ...

These straightforward classroom strategies start with a question: What does this child need from me right now?

Children who love to plan a project from start to finish, or love to see how one concept can apply to multiple areas and situations in life, will feel comfortable in the interactive, hands-on, ...

Many interventions and programs designed to improve low-income children's lives focus on providing high-quality early-childhood education. Preschool classrooms that are emotionally supportive, ...

A new study published this month in the journal Child Development, found that eight key teacher actions can make the difference between a mediocre preschool classroom and an excellent one. A team of ...

We’re a military family, which means my five-year-old has already lived in four states. By my calculation, he has experienced seven different daycare, preschool and elementary school classrooms. While ...

Can you imagine a preschool with no walls or technology, where children play and learn in the great outdoors all day long? NBC's Sam Brock visited Tiny Trees preschool in Seattle to find out more ...

There are, New York City public school principal Kristina Beecher discovered, an awful lot of types of play blocks. There are wooden blocks, cardboard blocks, magnetic blocks, clear plastic blocks, ...

It may seem like your parental duty to want your child to learn to read before starting school, but in reality, there's a ...

Positive interactions in a pre-kindergarten classroom may be equally or more important to the future academic development of 4-year-olds than learning letters and numbers, according to Dale Farran, ...