January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. A growing body of research indicates that a high-quality preschool education can ...

Fun and learning combine with this set of Free Printable Valentine Preschool Worksheets. Includes twelve educational ...

Be sure that your preschool is asking kids to be responsible for their lunches, snacks and gear from home. “By the end of preschool, most kids can take on full responsibility for all of three items,” ...

The latest results of the Program for International Student Assessment give tantalizing hints of the connections between students’ early-childhood education and their later math scores. A new ...

Teacher Gabriela Mora reads Los Tres Cerditos, or The Three Little Pigs, to her Migrant Head Start class. Credit: Lillian Mongeau, EdSource Today HUGHSON – Long before President Obama triggered a new ...

Is preschool worth it? Policymakers, parents, researchers and us, at NPR Ed, have spent a lot of time thinking about this question. We know that most pre-kindergarten programs do a good job of ...

Campaigning for the presidency in 2008, Barack Obama pledged to help states implement taxpayer-funded universal preschool--preschool for all.[1] The President's early education plan, for which he has ...

When universal preschool originally launched in Florida, the vision was to offer both a 3-hour and a 6-hour preschool day, but there was never enough funding for the longer day, said Madeleine Thakur, ...