Nationally, we are facing a preschool crisis. Only a third of four-year-olds (and just 5 percent of three-year-olds) attend state-funded preschool, despite evidence that high quality, center-based ...

BRUNSWICK, Md., July 2, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Preschools are facing a new challenge in a Covid-19 world. How can the youngest (typically ages 2-5) learners access educational opportunities in the ...

The Hechinger Report is a national nonprofit newsroom that reports on one topic: education. Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get stories like this delivered directly to your inbox. Consider ...

Are you looking for educational online games for your preschooler? Kids love to do what we do. So when they see us working at the computer, they naturally want a turn, too. If you’re going to let your ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. This story about ...

Nancy Carlsson-Paige was nominated to share her thoughts by Diane Ravitch, who wrote for the project in 2017. The recent growth of online preschools, already in existence in at least eight states, ...

To the surprise of many, online preschool not only exists, it’s expanding. Thanks to some states’ desire to offer such programs to children with limited or no opportunities to attend traditional ...

Karen McLean didn’t want her twins to fall behind in kindergarten. “Kindergarten is not like it used to be,” said McLean, who is a literacy coach for New Albany-Floyd County Schools. "It's not ...

Adrian Zavala Santana was practically nonverbal when he turned three and aged out of state services that offer help when a child is developing slowly. He could say just 20 words in Spanish, his mother ...

When my 3-year-old’s preschool went online back in March, I was dubious. He loved his teachers and classmates, but up until now those relationships had been entirely, and developmentally appropriately ...