Learning how to write takes time, whether it is holding your pen properly or ensuring all the letters are on the same straight line. These days, some children roll their eyes, wondering why they still ...

When it comes to helping your preschool-aged child work on language and math skills, it’s best to find games and activities you both enjoy. This can lay the foundation for a positive attitude toward ...

Why would a parent send their typical child to a preschool for special needs? Well, as it turns out, the benefits of an integrated preschool program are endless. From one-on-one attention to learning ...

Opening Shot: A woman in overalls holds an animated box. “Wow! It’s a surprise box! Let’s see what’s inside!” she says. Helping Accurso is her husband Aron, whose day job was working on the Broadway ...

Teaching handwriting in elementary school is getting huge support from research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Some state legislatures are paying attention and mandating that handwriting be ...

The largest-ever humanitarian intervention in early childhood education shows that remote learning can produce results comparable to a year of in-person teaching. The other day some preschoolers were ...

MIT’s Personal Robots Group has been piloting what they envision as "the preschool of the future" — a marriage between digital devices and a friendly classroom robot that could help tutor preschoolers ...

Preschool teachers are the Rodney Dangerfields of the teaching profession, the "we don’t get no respect" gang. They’re often dismissed, even by their K-12 colleagues, as babysitters and not "real" ...

On a recent morning in South Seattle, Kristin Alfonzo challenged her preschoolers to make the number 7 using beads strung across two rows of pipe cleaners. One 5-year-old boy slid four beads across ...