President Donald Trump’s push for the largest mass deportation in history has had an outsized impact on the child care field, ...

Early engagement with music has been shown to boost language development, memory retention and even brain development.

The Philadelphia Performing Arts Charter School built a musical learning space for kids with autism and other students with a grant from String Theory Schools.

If there are universal symbols of fall, they surely include the pumpkin, the round orange-colored squash that helps signal the change of seasons — even in a tropical climate. After all, this is the ...

A Los Angeles kindergarten teacher is proving you can shape young minds by day and shape the sound of hip-hop by night. Alex Ochoa, who produces music under the name Otxoa, has gone viral after ...

Barney is a well-known children’s character who became famous through the long-running TV show Barney & Friends. The show’s simple songs about friendship and learning turned Barney into a household ...

Millions of children across the United States are stepping into kindergarten for the first time. My son is one of them. It's emotional for any parent — watching your child take those steps into the ...

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When I was growing up in the Sacramento suburbs in the 1990s, kindergarten enrollment involved very little decision-making. My mother simply sent us to the elementary school closest to home. Now as a ...

EXCLUSIVE: Madrid-based The Frank Barton Company has revealed it is working on a second season of preschool animated series Pim Pam Pino, which has proven a hit on YouTube, and is looking for further ...

It’s that time of year when kindergartners proudly march across the stage to receive a certification of completion, enjoy the summer, and look ahead to 1st grade. This transition once represented a ...