Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Boston Public Schools’ evidence-based Focus on Early Learning program shows how this can work at scale. There, children in pre ...

Once upon a time, at the tail end of a week that had lengthened with long commutes and sagged under the weight of deadlines, I snuggled in to read a storybook—a prim, well-loved, late-Victorian ...

It’s hard to underestimate the power that reading has on a young mind. For Kelly Carter, it wasn’t the actual pages of her favorite book, Pancakes Pancakes! by Eric Carle, that made it so special. It ...

Play is how children learn about the world, explore their environments, and engage in physical activity. It’s also essential in nurturing children’s social, emotional and cognitive capabilities and is ...