After 40 years of operation, the Healdsburg Child Development Preschool, which serves mostly low-income, Latino families, is being forced to shut down.

In early childhood education, structure is best understood as guidance rather than restriction. A thoughtful preschool ...

Almost every state has now been awarded a share of a federal grant intended to help pay for strategic planning in its early-childhood system. The Preschool Development Grants, which were awarded ...

The Post and Courier, Spartanburg Academic Movement and Mary Black Foundation will host a Sept. 9 forum at Wofford on the benefits of SC investing in Pre-K ...

In 2014, Congress appropriated $250 million for a program offering preschool grants for states that apply for them. States with small state-funded preschool programs may apply for development grants, ...

The preschoolers benefit in many ways because the class concentrates on cultivating all four areas of a child’s development: physical, intellectual, emotional and social development, Feddern says.

The new version of the federal grant program eliminates many of the requirements that were a part of the Obama-era preschool funding stream, which awarded money to 18 states.

Those who think scarce preschool resources should continue to go to the poorest children can point to the negative effects on social development, especially for children from the wealthiest families.