An alliance of retired military leaders called on policymakers to support early childhood education as a means of boosting America's economic power and armed forces, in a newly released report. Read Full Post >
The agency outlines how much money states could possibly receive if the president's $75 billion preschool expansion program is adopted. Read Full Post >
Preschool director Dorothy Stewart offers pre-K teachers in the Old Firehouse Schools up to $9,000 in retention bonuses if they stay for four years. Read Full Post >
Children are BORN experts at learning. Poor and rich. They couldn't survive a week if they weren't born intellectuals. Read Full Post >
Medication instead of behavior therapy is being used as a first-line treatment, according to a recent survey. Read Full Post >
President Barack Obama took the opportunity during a forum with business leaders in Costa Rica to reiterate his views of early education as a wise investment. Read Full Post >
States have taken the lead in creating preschool programs, but they don't have enough money to enroll all children, according to the Center for American Progress. Read Full Post >
Providence, R.I., is implementing a $5 million plan to measure the ways in which families and caregivers talk to poor children, in hopes of improving literacy. Read Full Post >
A study of Tennessee pre-K teachers showed them hard-pressed to name stories with ethnic minorities in them, a Missouri professor writes. Read Full Post >
Early-intervention services should not be left out of early-learning expansion plans, says the Council for Exceptional Children's early-childhood division. Read Full Post >
