When her colleague resigned unexpectedly over Christmas break, special education teacher Lisa Whitlow-Hill took 20 more students under her wing. In addition to coordinating a college and career program for young adults... Read more »

When Colorado’s kindergarten enrollment plummeted during the first year of the pandemic, people wondered: Where did the kids go and will they come back? A year later, many young students have returned... Read more »

Nearly two years into the pandemic, COVID often blends into the background at Cayuga Elementary School in North Philadelphia. In Ruth Llorens’ kindergarten classroom, 20 kids chatter about pets and birthdays, read... Read more »

Luke Julien and Gael Carmona-Meneses know exactly what kindergarten is for. “Literacy, reading, even science, stuff like that,” Luke said. “I know a lot about it.” Gael added another cool activity: “I... Read more »

The crowning achievement of former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration is uncontested: universal pre-K. The program guarantees free pre-K for 4-year-olds, and has grown to include 3-year-olds in a dozen districts with... Read more »

Colorado has kicked off its search for an executive director to lead its new Department of Early Childhood, a cabinet-level agency that will house programs that currently reside in the state’s education... Read more »

The $10.7 million in federal funding designated for Maryland’s early childhood education and care services will help support children from low-income families by focusing on their communities, a children’s education advocate said.... Read more »

Should preschool classes be capped at 16 children? Should teachers have bachelor’s degrees? Should classrooms be subject to annual in-person visits from expert evaluators? These are a few of the questions Colorado... Read more »

Olga Alvira-Velez, who taught in Philadelphia schools for more than three decades, has been retired for six years now. But when she steps outside of the house it never fails that someone... Read more »