Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Daryl Austin is a Utah-based reporter who covers health and wellness. Once considered a luxury of the upper class alone, parents ...

The push to expand pre-kindergarten programs is on. Last school year, public pre-K programs received their biggest-ever boost in state funding. Enrollment in state pre-K programs nationwide increased ...

Washington, DC - November, 2004 - A landmark, long-term study of the effects of high-quality early care and education on low-income three- and four-year-olds shows that adults at age 40 who ...

The early years are critical to children's development, and as that awareness has grown, so has interest in preschool. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, more than two-thirds of U.S. 4-year-olds were ...

First lady Jill Biden looks on as Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin holds a dinosaur while 4-year-old Amadeus Pham "feeds" L and M letters to the creature during an alphabet exercise at Maxwell ...