Practical tips for helping families understand what their kids are learning amid the seeming chaos of a preschool classroom.

Aligning teaching with the natural rhythms of how young students learn can cultivate a deeper understanding of the content.

On a sunny morning in Santa Maria, students at Bill Libbon Elementary School lined up for lunch outside the bustling ...

Vanderbilt University education professor Dale Farran reports in her recent study of preschool classrooms that math was intentionally taught by teachers only 2.5 percent of the day.

The math children learn in kindergarten can set the stage for later success in school. Mimi Engel, an assistant professor of public policy and education at Vanderbilt University, was on the team ...

A new initiative is showing promise as a way to help teachers prepare Palm Beach County children for the growing rigors of ...

“The standards and expectations for math learning in kindergarten have risen, so children who enter kindergarten without some basic math skills could be disadvantaged, and we have a huge achievement ...

AbstractAnalyzing Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey—Kindergarten (ECLS-K) data, we examine how exposure to instructional practices influences math test scores at the end of kindergarten for children ...