PBS Kids has announced the release date for the literacy-themed animated series Phoebe & Jay, which aims to improve ...

Everybody is talking about high quality preschools but few folks know what high quality preschool looks like—especially for literacy development. The following checklist can be used to evaluate ...

New research finds preschool teachers' use of sophisticated vocabulary can predict fourth-grade reading comprehension and word recognition. Preschool teachers' use of sophisticated vocabulary and ...

Many studies have shown that attending preschool boosts children’s kindergarten readiness, and that its effects can — but don’t invariably — last beyond kindergarten and even into adulthood. Credit: ...

Many young children have some degree of farsightedness—an ability to see objects far away more clearly than objects that are close up. Health providers are divided on whether moderate farsightedness ...

Arkansas is investing nearly $40 million in early childhood education through a series of new federal grants aimed at ...

Children who attend preschool enter kindergarten with greater skills than those who don't, but that advantage is nearly halved by the end of the year as their counterparts quickly begin to catch up, ...

Research by Stanford scholars shows that access to public preschool improves diagnosis rates and support for developmental ...

Massachusetts will invest $850,000 in developing preschoolers’ literacy skills, the Healey-Driscoll administration announced Wednesday. The money, to be split among four organizations, will better ...