Silas McLellan, a kindergartner in a play-based learning class, plays with toy blocks during Choice Time at Symonds ...

With the help of a grant from the Life Time Foundation, Havel Elementary School has received the Learn-to-Ride Program from ...

Letter F activities are always fun to set up because frogs, fish, and flowers give kids plenty of playful ways to connect with the letter. When I worked through them with my son, simple crafts and ...

How can parents really prepare their kids for kindergarten? Take advice from a teacher who says parents need to do one important thing: “Tell your kid no.” “‘No’ is not a bad word,” Emily Perkins, a ...

The math children learn in kindergarten can set the stage for later success in school. Mimi Engel, an assistant professor of public policy and education at Vanderbilt University, was on the team that ...

When Sunny Lee’s son was ready for kindergarten in 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic had just begun. His school in Pleasanton, an eastern suburb of the San Francisco Bay, was holding classes online, like ...

Last school year was hard enough. Denise Ladson Johnson’s son Moses struggled with the abrupt transition to distance learning in the spring, with having to say goodbye to his teacher and classmates ...

Almost 20 years ago a San Diego nonprofit created a preschool to focus on the “little guys” — children who experience ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Erika Christakis (yep, the same woman at the center of the Yale ...