Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When children start kindergarten, sizable gaps in science knowledge already exist between whites and minorities—as well as between ...

Preschool teachers don’t feel comfortable teaching science—and it shows in their classroom practice, according to a new study. But science education for young children doesn’t need to be a slog or a ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

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F. Chris Curran has received funding from the AERA Grants Program with support from the National Science Foundation. The annual back-to-school season is filled with high hopes for making new friends, ...

Science kindergarten visits the new Science Education Centre The University of Helsinki LUMA Centre and AinO, a support network for subject-teacher students in the humanities, merged at the beginning ...

EdSource · Sexual abuse claims threaten school district budgets, even when not accused Science education for most children in California begins in elementary school, but it should start much sooner — ...

This item originally appeared on the Early Education blog. A worryingly small number of college programs that train students to become early-childhood educators actually focus on the important parts ...

To teach language to the youngest students, you first introduce them to the letters of the alphabet and the sounds that the letters make. Next, you step forward into combining letters into simple ...

The block room at the Randolph School in Wappingers Falls, N.Y., is bustling with preschool builders. One boy places a tall, wood, cross-shaped block under a newly erected archway, explaining to ...