It is easy to see how many of our behaviors, both good and bad, took root in our first few years of life. Can some of us imagine a time when we didn’t bite our nails? Could everyone see that the ...

If you've ever watched toddlers hop, skip, jump and run, you know how much joy these simple activities bring. Developmental psychologists say when you add music and organized movement to that mix, you ...

DAVID L. KIRP, a public policy professor at UC Berkeley, is writing a book, "Before School," about the universal preschool movement. IT HAS LONG been an American article of faith that early schooling ...

Did you know that it was once illegal to teach a kindergarten class? Well, in Prussia, at least, where the kindergarten movement began under Friedrich Fröbel, a German educator and proponent of better ...

Not so long ago, I got into a debate with a retired educator about the value of preschool. His view was that the preschool movement is yet another symptom of America’s rush to make our children grow ...

A ballot initiative that would guarantee a year of free preschool to all California children has attracted strong support from the state’s voters. But the measure, the most ambitious attempt to expand ...