How do preschools best ensure that children are learning to get along with others, handle their emotions, focus on a specific task, and persist despite facing challenges? That’s the question ...
What is the best way to help poor schoolchildren succeed at math? A study now sheds light on the ways preschool activities may -- or may not -- help children develop cognitive skills. What is the best ...
Children yearn to explore the world around them. Eagerly, they observe, wonder, imagine and pretend. They ask hard questions, push their bodies to climb obstacles, plan complicated tasks for ...
CHILDREN COME INTO THE WORLD eager to learn. The first five years of life are a time of enormous growth of linguistic, conceptual, social, emotional, and motor competence. Right from birth a healthy ...
This post is by Kathleen Cushman. Her most recent book, with WKCD colleague Barbara Cervone, is Belonging and Becoming: The Power of Social and Emotional Learning in High Schools (Harvard Education ...
Children in the Coachella Valley will be returning to school this month. Our valley offers a wealth of opportunities and choices for our children from the highest quality public schools to private ...
In a classroom filled with the usual sights of preschool life, a group of local children is proving that you are never too ...
It looks like a simple toy puzzle. But when it comes to preschool, it is so much more. This puzzle – with it's brightly colored wooden pieces – teaches children about shapes, colors and numbers. But ...