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A year's worth of data collected in four childcare centers in Maine is showing intriguing results about the kinds of environments that best foster scientific tendencies in very young children. When ...

The preschool years are critical for developing cognitive skills, setting the foundation for a lifetime of learning. Among ...

When it comes to teaching preschoolers their ABCs, sticking with the basics might just be more effective. Despite the rise of digital tools and educational games, learning to read still begins with ...

Grown-ups—including teachers—tend to underestimate preschoolers’ capacity to learn scientific principles as well as the length of time they’ll spend exploring such ideas, the National Science Teachers ...

When students learn from home, they miss out on instruction from one of their best teachers: Their peers. Children learn from watching each other and from modeling what they see other children doing, ...

The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the education of at least 1.5 billion school students. That’s more than 90% of the world’s children. Although many schools in the west, along with private ...

Nina Greenwood is a passionate educator, founder and CEO of Happy Plum Language Learning, an Ed-Tech startup based out of Harvard i-lab. As the CEO and founder of an innovative edtech startup, I’ve ...

Erika Christakis is an early-childhood educator (formerly at the Yale Child Study Center), a Massachusetts-certified teacher (for pre-K through 2nd grade), and a licensed preschool director. Her work ...

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EdSource · How one student got her middle school to change its name (rebroadcast) As public servants and mothers whose life work is dedicated to maximizing the potential in all children from birth ...