As the price of private preschool soars and states spend more than ever on public programs for the poor, will the middle class be left behind? Josiah Taft, 4, played at the water table in his public ...

Preschool is most likely to help low-income children if their classmates come from a range of family incomes, according to a new study. This story also appeared in Forbes The new research contradicts ...

Yelena Hagooli has done everything possible to give her 4-year-old son the best start in life. She took him to the library every week, fed him the healthiest foods, left her job to care for him, and ...

First, new books. Now, real classrooms. The basic-tools-of-learning keep flowing in to the infamous Queens “School of No,” where furniture has finally been delivered for kindergarten students, and pre ...

While Gov. Jerry Brown battles the University of California regents to keep a lid on undergraduate tuition, the rising cost of childcare and preschool are often a bigger concern for middle-class ...

Alabama legislators used to have sticker shock when faced with the cost of high-quality pre-kindergarten education. Now, they understand that those investments pay off because, as economists estimate, ...

Offering universal preschool is “essentially giving a cash transfer to middle-class families,” Cascio said, since many of these families will find a way to pay for some preschool anyway. “But,” she ...