Making Opportunity Count’s Head Start program in Gardner recently celebrated Week of the Young Child. According to a ...

After 25 years in the field of early childhood education, Han has now received the Brian Sutton-Smith Play Scholarship Award from The Association for the Study of Play (TASP). This award honors ...

How do children learn to play? 6 styles of play in early childhood As they grow, your child will play in lots of different ways. Gaynor Rice explains some different styles of play. Early years ...

The World Bank’s guidance note outlines how to design and build environmentally sustainable, play-based early learning spaces ...

A majority of children aged between three- and four-years-old in 74 countries, or about 40 million, have fathers who do not play or engage in early learning activities with them, according to a ...

Society seems to have forgotten the importance of play, specifically free play, rather focusing on structured activities and academic tasks or guiding play to line up with a specific agenda.

Joan Lombardi, director of the Early Opportunities Initiative and adjunct professor and senior adviser at the Stanford University Center for Early Childhood, Graduate School of Education, spoke ...

Research has shown the importance of ... is fundamental for early childhood brain development. In episode 6 of Building Blocks, we explore the multiple aspects of play and imagination and how ...

Frankfort-Elberta Area Schools is accepting applications for its early learning programs for the 2025-26 school year. Amber Wilson, early childhood coordinator for the district, said four early ...