Every Child Belongs: Advice for Teachers on Preschool Students with Special Needs
Are you a teacher welcoming a child with special needs to your classroom for the first time? Or a parent…
What’s the Best Way to Read to Your Children?
Every parent knows that reading to children supports their long-term language development. Studies show that regularly reading to children helps…
Key Considerations Around Pre-K Program Size and Financing
Continuing in our series on the Brookings Institute report “The Current State of Scientific Knowledge on Pre-Kindergarten Effects,” Chapters 6-8…
What Are Characteristics of Quality Pre-K Programs?
Continuing in our series about the Brookings Institute Report “The Current State of Scientific Knowledge on Pre-Kindergarten Effects,” today we’re…
Brookings Institution: Current Landscape for Public Pre-Kindergarten Programs
Many policy makers and educators ask how the United States will prepare its citizens for the challenges of the 21st…
An Offer Of Help From Sesame Street for Traumatized Children
A new initiative called Sesame Street in Communities is providing free materials, including videos, books and games to help parents…
Easy Ways Parents Put Science Lessons into Everyday Living
Over the last days, we have examined the Harvard University Center on the Developing Child report “Three Principles to Improve…
How to Communicate with Your Child
Listening and talking is the key to a healthy connection between you and your children. But parenting is hard work…
Top Skills Children Learn from Arts
Yesterday we highlighted two studies that measured how exposure to art can help children learn important executive function skills. For…
Dads Spending Time on Baby, Not Baby Talk
by Ellen Galinsky and Jackie Bezos Fathers want to step up at home when it comes to caring for their…