Poems, stories, and science activities capture children’s imagination and curiosity as they explore the science in the world around them. Each letter of the alphabet features a cartoon creature, a ...

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PITTSFIELD -- The school year may be coming to an end, but for early childhood educators and advocates, it's never too early to start preparing children for kindergarten. The Berkshire Museum, through ...

F. Chris Curran has received funding from the AERA Grants Program with support from the National Science Foundation. The annual back-to-school season is filled with high hopes for making new friends, ...

Kindergarten classrooms nationwide have changed dramatically since the late 1990s and nearly all of these changes are in the direction of a heightened focus on academics, particularly literacy, ...

The block room at the Randolph School in Wappingers Falls, N.Y., is bustling with preschool builders. One boy places a tall, wood, cross-shaped block under a newly erected archway, explaining to ...

It doesn't take long for gaps to appear between children who participate in extracurricular activities and kids who don't, a new study found. It doesn't take long for gaps to appear between children ...