As pressure to raise scores on standardized tests has trickled down to the lower grades, kindergarten and even pre-kindergarten classrooms have focused more on academic skills. But debating whether a ...

Mississippi Invests in Two Pre-Kindergarten Programs to Help Prepare Kids for School PETAL, Miss. (AP) — Preschoolers kneel on a kaleidoscope rug, their clumsy hands reaching for wooden blocks, little ...

Eileen Isham, the co-director of Head Start programs at Portland Public Schools, peeks into a room at the new Clarendon Regional Early Learning Center. (Nicole Dungca/The Oregonian) Helen Nash says ...

The push to expand pre-kindergarten programs is on. Last school year, public pre-K programs received their biggest-ever boost in state funding. Enrollment in state pre-K programs nationwide increased ...

A new pre-kindergarten pilot program, expected to start this fall, will be delivered in 35 schools across Newfoundland and Labrador. (Mark Cumby/CBC) About 600 more child-care spaces will open up in ...

SINGAPORE – A small-scale pilot will be launched at two new pre-schools by the Ministry of Education (MOE) to study the impact on young children when they have more exposure to mother tongue language ...

Understanding all the pre-kindergarten programs can be daunting for parents in L.A. these days. L.A. Unified has some new programs — with new names — that can be a challenge to navigate for what is ...