During the 2023-24 school year, a higher share of children were enrolled in preschool than ever before, and states spent ...

At the end of their first year, the kids who went to pre-K scored higher on school readiness — as expected. But after third grade, they were doing worse than the control group. And at the end of ...

Mark Trifilio, principal of the public pre-K-5th grade Orchard School in Vermont, sat down with the school’s 40 educators last summer to discuss the soon-to-start new school year and homework ...

"Parents whose kids have access to reliable, high-quality child care in the pre-K period are more likely to work during that period, and they work more hours," wrote economist Emily Oster in her ...

What local schools are doing to ensure pre-K students are ready ... "Using it just 20 minutes a day we saw that children's readiness for school was 45 points higher than children who did not use ...

Pre-K might have the biggest effect on ‘emotional intelligence,’ and that matters a lot. Pre-K student Annalyisa Flores raises her hand to answer her question at Irving School in Highland Park ...

NYC families feeling impacts of budget cuts on early child care 03:18. NEW YORK -- Cuts to early childhood education are driving children from the New York City public school system, according to ...

But it could have a bigger impact: A new study finds that kids who attended universal pre-K are more likely to graduate from high school and attend college.