Quality child care and development facilities are good for the community and good for business. A preschool program follows the same basic license and permit laws as child care facilities. Start with ...

Studies have linked preschool attendance and professional childcare for children ages four and below, also called early ...

Dale Farran has been studying early childhood education for half a century. Yet her most recent scientific publication has made her question everything she thought she knew. "It really has required a ...

Landmark studies of preschool programs in the 1960s and 70s showed that they could make a big difference for children from low-income families. But more recent experimental studies of preschool don’t ...

More states than ever are providing publicly funded preschool. That's according to a new report from the researchers at the National Institute for Early Education Research, or NIEER, who have been ...

Yelena Hagooli has done everything possible to give her 4-year-old son the best start in life. She took him to the library every week, fed him the healthiest foods, left her job to care for him, and ...

While there is wide consensus that preschool is beneficial for children, only about half of 3- to 4-year-olds in the United States are enrolled, according to the National Center for Education ...