Washington D.C.: If you want your kid to be a stellar student in their adolescence, then encourage them to play with their friends in kindergarten. Cognitive skills and experiences like ...

Steve Oates, a veteran teacher of 1st-graders, has been leading an initiative to bring play back to kindergarten classrooms in North Carolina’s Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school district. The effort ...

BROOKLINE (CBS) - School is back in session, yet a summer debate over the way kindergarten should be taught continues in Brookline. During a school committee meeting this past June, teachers voiced ...

I have a secret to share. I keep my nine-year-old son home from school every Monday to play outside and take karate. Marty’s wonderful teacher supports his weekly mental health day. I need one too.

Who can resist an adorable puppy? Pups are a ton of work, even if they steal your heart. Thankfully, there is puppy kindergarten to teach them a few rules. NEEDHAM, Mass. — Who can resist an adorable ...

Emphasizing more play, hands-on learning, and students helping one another in kindergarten improves academic outcomes, self-control and attention regulation, finds new UBC research. The study, ...

The days when kindergarten focused on playing and finger painting may be waning, according to a new University of Virginia study, as early-learning classrooms devote significantly more attention to ...

Children participate in a football game at the Central Kindergarten in Changxing County, east China's Zhejiang Province, June 26, 2018. The kindergarten held a football festival, during which children ...

I have a secret to share. I keep my nine-year-old son home from school every Monday to play outside and take karate. Marty’s wonderful teacher supports his weekly mental health day. I need one too.