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Research has shown that investing in high-quality early childhood education can generate as much as a 13% return on investment, delivering benefits that help businesses, communities and the people who ...

A GEORGIA SCHOOL has found an ingenious way to teach its youngest students about rhymes. By using an interactive whiteboard, Dug Gap Elementary School in Dalton, part of the Whitfield County School ...

With better data, policymakers will better understand the quality of existing pre-K programs and how to strengthen the components that matter most for kids and their families. Credit: Jackie Mader for ...

As Mamdani builds out plans to deliver universal child care, he will have to weigh speed against stability. Universal prekindergarten offers lessons.

More than half of the 4-year-old kids who live in city shelters have signed up for universal prekindergarten programs, officials said Monday. A whopping 1,175 kids living in shelters are enrolled in ...

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