“We want our kids to be developing as much oral language as possible, because that’s the bedrock of reading and writing.” Poling thinks part of what’s helping Iris in kindergarten is that she’s in the ...

Indeed, even though a 2018 study of Tennessee’s state pre-K program found some discouraging overall outcomes for students, it still found that “non-native English speakers” showed stronger gains than ...

Embedded Pre-K classrooms aren’t unprecedented in North Carolina’s Wake County Public School System. A ground-up building project designed specifically to accommodate early education, though? That was ...