Ensuring children’s success in school has to start with quality early childhood education. Drexel UCP supports this effort through the West Philadelphia Action for Early Learning Initiative (AFEL) – a ...

It is just as natural for young children to think mathematically about their world as it is for them to use language. They develop mathematical knowledge as they manipulate objects and reason about ...

Young children have a surprising capacity to learn math from their surroundings. It doesn’t take much, and they hear and use math language all the time without realizing it. When they ask for snacks, ...

January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. In education circles, early literacy — such as ensuring all children are reading by ...

The Heising-Simons Foundation has awarded an 18-month, $500,000 research and development grant to the Mary E. Walsh Center for Thriving Children to advance early math learning for children and ...

Throughout Tiffany Trevenen’s more than 30-year career in Moffat County schools in Craig, Colo., she has seen students experience the same math struggles again and again. “It was very apparent in ...

The Miami-Dade school board is exploring the possibility of transforming underused school sites into early learning centers. The initiative is an effort to give existing infrastructure a second life, ...

San Diego is one of nine cities selected to participate in a program with national experts providing guidance on how to meet the city’s early learning and childcare objectives. The Early Learning ...

San Benito County's math initiative, revived in 2023, is improving student math skills through innovative teaching methods and has led to better test scores. San Benito County's math initiative, ...

In education circles, early literacy — such as ensuring all children are reading by third grade — gets a lot of attention, and rightfully so. Early reading skills have been shown to have a profound ...