Preschool student play at the New Horizon Academy is shown in St. Paul, Minnesota. The United States currently lags behind other countries in terms of investment in and access to early education.

That’s thanks in large part to Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, born on this day in 1804, who opened the first English-language kindergarten in the United States and popularized the concept among ...

As more early-childhood education advocates call for universal pre-K, it’s interesting to note that less than third of all states even require full-day kindergarten. The newly updated report ...