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We all know math is a big deal from kindergarten to 12th grade, but preschoolers need to start studying it, and not just counting and shapes, but more difficult topics, such as geometry, according to the latest buzz among education leaders.

Over the last decade, advocates for early learning in Washington have worked hard to create a mor...

If you think early learning debates are reserved for teachers, parents, academics and advocates, you weren’t paying attention this campaign season.

California is one of the nation’s largest states and it is struggling with some of the country’s biggest early learning challenges, according to a new report.

A new report out of Tennessee found that while state pre-k helped to prepare students for kindergarten benefits were nearly impossible to see in later grades. Measurable differences among students who ...

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The early learning debate has come in waves this year, rising over challenge funds, Head Start and the right age to start kindergarten.

A new report from England is gaining a lot of attention for suggesting that kids could start kindergarten at age six, but some headlines got the idea backwards.The Cambridge Primary Review suggests extending quality early learning, and all of its benefits, through age five. ...

A new study suggests that quality pre-kindergarten not only prepares kids for school, but also reduces the percentage of students in special education, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports.

Washington early education leaders released late last week a first look at a draft plan for a comprehensive birth-to-8 early learning system that would rely on parents to help shape changes and dramatically expand access to early learning.

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It is still tough out there as state unemployment rates rise and jobs disappear, but pre-kindergarten initiatives fought the recession to a virtual standstill, losing no overall ground in state funding this year, a report released today says.

Autism seems to be everywhere today, but a new film suggests not all newly-diagnosed children have the mysterious disorder and that these autistic-like children could help us understand how students learn and improve the first years of education.

The question of an early education funding cliff generated a lot of interesting analysis, including the idea there will be a pause in the rise of pre-kindergarten and bigger kindergarten classes from the National Institute for Early Education Research’s Steven Barnett.