NPR

This online learning program is teaching preschoolers in crisis situations

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with reporter Anya Kamenetz about an Arabic-language remote learning program called "Ahlan Simsim." It's a show by the Sesame Workshop, created for Syrian refugees. Over ...
MIT Technology Review

Yes, remote learning can work for preschoolers

The largest-ever humanitarian intervention in early childhood education shows that remote learning can produce results comparable to a year of in-person teaching. The other day some preschoolers were ...
The Hechinger Report

For preschoolers after the pandemic, more states say: Learn outdoors

A preschooler at the Carrie Murray Nature Center Forest Preschool fills a bucket with water from a stream in Leakin Park. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one ...
Education Week

Preschool Network Putting ‘Innovation’ Grant to Test

At the start of the school day at AppleTree Public Charter School‘s campus in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, the 20 otherwise-wiggly students in Monique Twyman’s preschool class are ...
Los Angeles Times

Preschool? Transitional kindergarten? Is there a difference? Parents are stressing out

Yelena Hagooli has done everything possible to give her 4-year-old son the best start in life. She took him to the library every week, fed him the healthiest foods, left her job to care for him, and ...
EdSource

Preschoolers learning English need to be identified, supported, says California’s master plan

Young children whose first language is Spanish, Vietnamese, Arabic or another language other than English could get more help in becoming bilingual in child care and preschool under California’s new ...
WUNC

This online learning program is teaching preschoolers in crisis situations

Over the past couple of years, millions of kids in the Middle East have been tuning into a remote learning program called "Ahlan Simsim." (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "AHLAN SIMSIM") UNIDENTIFIED MUSICAL ...