Now 71 years old, Valley of the Moon Nursery School in Sonoma has faced the same recent challenges as other small, ...

When a measles outbreak hit West Texas this year, school absences surged to levels far beyond the number of children who ...

For 37 years, the ballerinas playing Clara in Ballet Minnesota’s annual production of “The Classic Nutcracker” have worn the ...

This year’s fourth grade class at Capeless did its part, turning $140 in seed money — $5 per student, out of their teachers' ...

The only early childhood education (ECE) center run by a public school district offering free preschool tuition opened in ...

Schools are starting to switch from learning math through memorization to learning it by problem-solving, focusing on understanding concepts. Ashwaubenon added class time to math and ELA in middle ...

In the past, when someone new came into his kindergarten classroom to provide unsolicited “support,” the author’s immediate thought was always, “OK, great, what are they trying to sell me?” A literacy ...

Across the country, educators continue to wrestle with big questions about math curricula. Two years ago, the California education board’s adoption of a long-gestating new math framework added more ...

The math crisis narrative is now familiar: On the Nation’s Report Card in 2024, only two in five fourth graders were proficient in grade-level math. By eighth grade, proficiency drops to just one in ...

Every 4-year-old in California can now go to school for free in their local districts. The new grade is called transitional kindergarten — or TK — and it's part of the state’s effort to expand ...

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