A ballot initiative that would guarantee a year of free preschool to all California children has attracted strong support from the state’s voters. But the measure, the most ambitious attempt to expand ...

In 2002, when Florida voters approved a constitutional amendment guaranteeing all children access to high-quality schooling at age four, the movement toward universal preschool education seemed to ...

In the 1970 and '80s, the notion that three- and four-year-olds should be taught in classrooms was a provocative idea. Today 40 states spend about $4.8 billion a year providing schooling for ...

Not so long ago, I got into a debate with a retired educator about the value of preschool. His view was that the preschool movement is yet another symptom of America’s rush to make our children grow ...

A local school is providing an alternative to traditional preschool programs. The Forest Kindergarten Movement began in the 1950s in Scandinavia. It didn’t reach the U.S. until 2007. Athens Forest ...

Did you know that it was once illegal to teach a kindergarten class? Well, in Prussia, at least, where the kindergarten movement began under Friedrich Fröbel, a German educator and proponent of better ...

It is easy to see how many of our behaviors, both good and bad, took root in our first few years of life. Can some of us imagine a time when we didn’t bite our nails? Could everyone see that the ...