There was a sense of idealism in the air in 1971 when Craig Ramey, a psychologist in his late 20s with a newly minted Ph.D., took a job in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to launch what would become one ...

The children who participated in two of the nation’s oldest preschool programs during the 1970s are now well into their 40s and 50s. And new research, which looked at their quality of life at age 35, ...

A dozen preschool children were injured Tuesday after a science experiment at a Texas school went awry and caused a flash fire that erupted in some of the students’ faces, authorities said. The 12 ...

Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has championed free prekindergarten in New York City, has cited Nobel laureate James Heckman’s research on the benefits of preschool for low-income children. Now Mr. Heckman ...

As pressure to raise scores on standardized tests has trickled down to the lower grades, kindergarten and even pre-kindergarten classrooms have focused more on academic skills. But debating whether a ...

Amid the pandemic, the number of young children attending preschool has dropped to its lowest level in more than a quarter century. The decline threatens to derail decades of improvements in school ...