A 2019 state law requiring schools to offer full-day pre-K is capturing child care’s most profitable customer base: 3- and 4-year-olds. Tim Kaminski, director of operations for Gingerbread Kids ...

And, as much as early literacy development plays a critical role in developing problem-solving abilities, early numeracy strongly predicts overall academic success, including literacy development: ...

Imagine a classroom where students understand math through physical play: They learn to skip count by literally skipping. They can recall different triangle shapes because they made “sculptures” of ...

Some of that is happening. Between the 2022 and 2023 school years, the state added 1,109 pre-K seats. But just 446, or 40%, of those seats came from the private sector, which has been slow to join the ...

Math is “a bit of a different story,” Sanderson said, with proficiency levels about half of what was seen with language arts. Of four cohorts of third graders assessed in the report ...