Gov. Tim Walz boasted about Minnesota’s education system to a Texas audience on Thursday. He said Minnesota’s graduation ...

Students aren’t necessarily missing the math, they’re missing how to make sense of the problem itself. Once we see ...

A Chicago institution with an 87% proficiency rate for math and reading is the best elementary school in Illinois, according ...

Decades of research have found that children who attend pre-K arrive at kindergarten with stronger academic skills than those who do not. A handful of experimental studies have even found that ...

WILMINGTON — On Monday evening, dozens of residents came to the New Hanover County NAACP’s public meeting called ‘SAVE Mary Washington Howe Pre-K Center.’ They appealed to the superintendent and four ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — “It’s about the kids, not about xAI,” Memphis City Councilwoman Michalyn Easter-Thomas said. The Memphis City Council has approved $1.5 million in general fund dollars for a “Pre-K ...

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While both enrollment and spending in early childhood education programs reached new levels in 2024, a few select states did the lion’s share of the work — with many states lagging behind. And with ...

Mount Laurel Schools partnered with the Greater Philadelphia YMCA to expand universal pre-K offerings. School district leaders said this partnership model is recommended by the New Jersey Department ...

California's public preschool programs grew more than any other state in the 2023-24 school year, according to a new report out on the state of preschool in the U.S. What's the report? Produced by the ...