Early Education
New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani is creating the first large-scale child care entitlement for 2-year-olds, but lessons from the field must be heeded
by Bruce Fuller, The Hechinger Report January 26, 2026 New York’s youthful mayor, Zohran Mamdani, is buoying the hopes of […]
January 26, 2026
Homeless kids get special treatment at Boston-area child care center
by Jackie Mader, The Hechinger Report January 21, 2026 To an untrained eye, the “gross motor room” at the Edgerley […]
January 21, 2026
Infants and toddlers are a growing group among homeless children
by Jackie Mader, The Hechinger Report January 17, 2026 BOSTON, Mass. — For months, Karian had tried to make it […]
January 17, 2026
The schools where even young children change classes
by Ariel Gilreath, The Hechinger Report January 13, 2026 BATON ROUGE, La. — About two dozen second graders sat on […]
January 13, 2026
The fight for equal benefits for early childhood teachers
Gloria Kim leads her preschool students in an activity at the California Crosspoint Academy in Hayward. Courtesy: Gloria Kim For […]
October 17, 2025
Advocacy group leader talks about the challenges of transitional kindergarten
Michael Olenick has spent his life pondering the preschool years. His mother, a childhood development professor, was one of the […]
June 23, 2025
Nature’s classroom: Why preschoolers need more time outdoors
At a forest school, the roof is the bright blue sky, a cluster of ladybugs flying through the air can […]
October 18, 2024
Transitional kindergarten can’t expand without the right kind of classrooms
This is the fourth in a series of stories on the challenges impacting California’s efforts to offer high-quality instruction to […]
October 16, 2024
How a caring teacher can make or break school for young students
The pint-sized pupils in Paula Merrigan’s transitional kindergarten, or TK, class often call her mom, or sometimes even grandma. One […]
October 15, 2024