Imagine starting a race knowing everyone will get a head start, except for you. Not exactly fair, is it? But for many children, this isn't too far off from reality.
As Congress seeks to avoid triggering across-the-board cuts to education, the nonprofit First Five Years Fund is urging legislators to invest in quali...
A recent study of the popular children’s program Curious George found that the series’ television episodes and TV tie-in books positively impacted...
In a brief released Tueday, National Education Policy Center managing director Dr. William Mathis urges policymakers to invest in high-quality prescho...
How our nation treats its children reflects our societal values. Children can't vote. They depend on us -- parents, grandparents, pediatricians, teachers, and other child health advocates and professionals, to do right by them.
Getting the job done and ensuring quality early education for every American kid would be an investment on the order of buying Apple stock in 2003 when it was at $6.56 a share.
Children who learn more today earn more tomorrow, and the earlier children are exposed to quality learning opportunities, the better off they are.
Our country is engaged in a deep, delicate battle about how to slice up the federal budget. What may surprise some people is that early childhood education comes down to everything Americans are anxious about.
Testing early development has a new meaning: 2-year olds in England will be given mandatory "progress checks" under a new government initiative to det...
Today, more than one-fourth of Latino children live in poverty. Three-fifths live in low-income families. One in five does not have health insurance. Only 55% graduate from high school.
