Look out for programs that give kids a choice, include at least some outdoor time and have a mix of different activities.

Tables and chairs arranged in a classroom. Senior Correspondent The after-school program disappeared from the Utah school where Jessica Langford sends her two older children, ages 7 and 9, in October ...

On a wall at Trader Joe’s are numerous drawings of shelter animals, each with their own biography, each an attempt to help those animals find homes. They are the result of Kids, Cats and K9s, a ...

In Union City, N.J., children at Eugenio Maria de Hostos Center for Early Childhood Education sit with their teacher for a read-along. The full-day preschool, which operates during the school year, is ...

Nationwide Children's Hospital is screening literacy skills in children, some as young as three years old. The program began in 2022, as concerns grew about lagging childhood literacy rates during the ...

It depends on the quality of the program and on what the children would be doing if they weren’t in care. Both political ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Children’s Hospital of Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) opened the Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) on Friday, a new program for children in need of ...

Michigan’s state budget unexpectedly eliminated all $19.4 million in funding for a program that coordinates early childhood services in each county across the state, shocking school leaders, early ...