When we constantly steer playtime, we may actually be getting in the way of the very skills we’re trying to build.

“I once had a student who hated math, but he loved football, so we did daily problems around Auburn University football,” says Suzanne H. Collins, who teaches second grade at Rocky Ridge Elementary, a ...

In an era of packed schedules, screen time, and intense focus on school readiness, many children are playing less than in previous generations, which harms development.

When it comes to early childhood education, child’s play may well be serious business. Fun and games bring more than just joy. They may be the key to helping children thrive in tough times, experts ...

In the United States, 18 percent of children under the age of 18—13 million children—live in a home struggling to put healthy food on the table. Food insecurity can have long-lasting effects on young ...

A child plays with chalk during the Our Babies 1st: Restore the Pay Equity Fund rally at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., on May 13, 2024. (Getty/Jemal Countess) This report accompanies the first ...

The Child Learning Center at the University of Colorado Boulder is not a typical preschool classroom. It has a special kind of magic, clinical supervisor Katie Miller said. Some children are just ...

I learned more about my daughter in one afternoon at the playground than from an entire semester of teacher conferences. She was five, and I was watching from a bench, pretending to look at my phone.

After more than two years of war disrupted the education of 700,000 students, UNICEF is working with partners to get every school-age child in Gaza back into the classroom.

Ever since Homo sapiens left the Great Rift Valley a few hundred thousand years ago, we’ve been worrying that the kids aren’t all right. The children are our future, we’re told, but they’re also ...

The Syosset-based nonprofit signed a long-term lease last year for 40,000 square feet at the Bellerose Elementary School located on 15.8 acres at 253 Bellerose Ave. The school closed in 2022.