High-quality preschool programs balance freewheeling playtime with structured activities and guidance from teachers. Credit: Annabel Clark Preschool curricula remain subpar for other reasons, too.

It’s a “brick and mortar” solution to engaging preschool girls in science, technology, engineering and math topics — commonly known as STEM — at the very beginning of their educational ...

Science has shown that teaching preschoolers to read and write their own first name is a research-based learning activity for promoting literacy (Hoorens & Todorova, 1988; Treiman & Broderick ...