At a time when the value of play is a raging debate in early education, Liliane Vanoy has an almost singular focus for the prekindergarten students enrolled in her school. Vanoy says the word three ...

Children from low-income families typically have fewer opportunities to develop language skills than middle-class children, which creates learning gaps evident on the first day of kindergarten.

When Breann Voytko and Kate Seitz first went to Hilltop Preschool in March, the two Ohio State graduate students in speech language pathology had no idea that the pre-K literacy intervention program ...

A new curriculum meant to enhance early literacy and language development for pre-K classrooms was approved by the Tucson Unified School District's governing board this week. The Teaching Early ...

There are many ways to quantify the difference between students from low-income homes and those raised in more financially stable settings. Here’s one: 30 million words. Between birth and the day she ...