A first-of-its-kind national trial shows that public Montessori preschool students enter kindergarten with stronger reading, ...

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Parents visiting their children’s kindergarten class for the first time may think they’ve arrived at the wrong room, especially if they expect it to resemble the kindergarten they attended as ...

New findings from the University of Virginia show children who attended public Montessori preschool demonstrated better reading ability, executive function, short-term memory and social understanding ...

Fog gives way to dappled sunlight on a brisk morning as little voices ring through the thicket of trees at the University of Washington Botanic Gardens in Seattle, where the Fiddleheads Forest School ...

Learning sight words has never been this easy! Many words don't follow basic decoding rules and are taught in pre-k and kindergarten classrooms as "sight words", "instant words", "high frequency words ...

Learning French while also developing language skills in one's mother tongue is no easy task. As a result, allophone children often face learning and communication difficulties in kindergarten, which ...

While there is wide consensus that preschool is beneficial for children, only about half of 3- to 4-year-olds in the United States are enrolled, according to the National Center for Education ...

Mobile apps have made it super easy for kids to learn in fun and engaging ways, anywhere anytime. There are tons of learning apps for kids out there and the choices can sometimes be confusing. However ...