In his March 10 speech laying out his education agenda, President Barack Obama established expanded and higher-quality preschool education as the plan’s “first pillar.” That sensible foundation is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vanessa Silver, who tutors young children with dyslexia, works with Liina Yerro, 9, in Granada Hills. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles ...

Everybody is talking about high quality preschools but few folks know what high quality preschool looks like—especially for literacy development. The following checklist can be used to evaluate ...

For many parents across the country, this fall will be their first time sending a child to school. Early childhood education has evolved, and educators and researchers are looking at this first ...

Preschool practitioners can follow a 5-phase assessment model of developmental literacy growth (an outgrowth of Piagetian theory) by observing how very young kids’ productions change qualitatively as ...

Students in the preschool at Family of Christ Lutheran Church in Chanhassen gathered April 6 to listen to a reading of the children’s book “My Daddy Tells Me” by author Thuba Nguyen. Nguyen is a ...

This year, for the first time, California schools will be screening kindergarteners, first- and second-graders for reading difficulties, including dyslexia, under a state mandate signed into law by ...