To the mountain of research on one of the most effective interventions that prepares children to succeed in school, we can now add one more: new findings that transitional kindergarten gives English ...

English learners who attended transitional kindergarten were better prepared in math, foundational reading skills and language skills when they entered kindergarten than English learners who did not, ...

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 ...

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Every morning, students in the Early Excellence Program in north Denver start their day with a song in Spanish and English. Story time and reading circles also happen in the two languages. Kids are ...

Entrance exams for preschool English academies — also known as “English kindergartens” — will be banned as early as June next ...

English kindergartens have been thriving on Korean parents’ belief that education in the “foreign” language should start from an early age. These kindergartens carry out all their daily programs in ...