Tag: preschool
Michigan Moves on Preschool for All
As President Biden’s American Families Plan meets opposition in Congress, Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer is moving forward with a $400 million dollar plan to...
Study Shows Preschool Boosts Graduation Rates
New research shows that attending a Boston public preschool led to positive long-term impacts on educational attainment as attendees were more likely to graduate...
Preschoolers Continue to Lose Learning Opportunities from Pandemic
Children from 3 to 5 years of age have lost important learning opportunities due to the pandemic, according to a nationwide survey by the...
Beginning Bilingual
Approaches to training dual-language preschool teachers in California
For the first time, this fiscal year the California Department of Education awarded $5 million through the...
Big Apple Goes Bilingual
NYC Launches 47 New, Free Pre-K Dual-Language Programs
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools
Chancellor Richard A. Carranza kicked off the first day...
Preschool Reading Boosts Language Skills by Eight Months
A new review of existing research finds that receptive language skills—the ability to understand information – are improved by the equivalent of eight...
Bringing Chinese to Preschoolers
Lauren Cortinas presents a
solution for the youngest learners of Mandarin
In October 2014, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave a speech at Tsinghua University in Beijing entirely...