Don't miss out on the headlines from Opinion. Followed categories will be added to My News. It was a word that was adopted under the German name that Froebel gave it. Friedrich wanted to create a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

One night when my daughter was in kindergarten I was putting her down to sleep, and as I was leaving the room, she said, “Daddy, a girl at school called me a mean name.” “What was it?” I asked. She ...

Here's a description from the site: These are books I created to help my little ones who were struggling with word boundaries, sight words and alphabet skills. They loved having their own books they ...

In the 1870s, a little boy named Frank was given a set of wooden blocks to play with. His mother had started a kindergarten in their Wisconsin home and young Frank was fascinated by the endless ways ...

English doesn't make a lot of sense when you really think about it. Parents don't necessarily make the best teachers-- at least to their own children. Tiffany Jenkins -- the woman behind the popular ...

Students in two kindergarten classes at Starr King Elementary are the first in San Francisco's public schools to learn Mandarin, the national language of China. School district officials hope it will ...

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