Seeing your child mix up b and d when reading or writing can feel alarming. But here’s the good news: it’s incredibly common ...

The CCSD's focus now is on its new Artificial Intelligence Learning Ambassadors (AILA) Cohort for K-12 teachers to strengthen ...

Writing looks noticeably different in early childhood classrooms than in older elementary ones due to the significant differences in student development. At the beginning of pre-K, children’s writing ...

This paper asks whether universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) programs can increase parental earnings and, if so, how much these gains affect the economic returns to UPK. Using admissions lotteries for an ...

Getting Started To get started with this activity, take a shadow walk to start noticing shadows in a different way. Once you choose or create a shadow, use pens and paper or digital drawing tools to ...

BOSTON ― Sixteen 4-year-olds are standing side by side inside a brightly decorated classroom, grinning and giggling and fidgeting only a little bit as they prepare to sing about the sun. They are ...

This paper exploits a new source of variation in Head Start funding to identify the program's effects on health and schooling. In 1965 the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) provided technical ...

A program in West Virginia, partially rolled out while Joe Manchin was governor, could be a model for the nation. But there were challenges, including the 10 years it took to establish.

It turns out that Jill Biden, the presumptive First Lady, has thought deeply about community colleges. In fact, she wrote her dissertation at the University of Delaware about how to improve retention ...

Yes. Some believe that pre-k should be purely child-led and play-focused, without explicit attention paid to literacy skills. However, failing to plan and intentionally teach literacy skills in pre-k ...