Since 2023, the Napa Valley Unified School District has contracted with Benicia-based In Harmony Music to provide music ...

Be sure that your preschool is asking kids to be responsible for their lunches, snacks and gear from home. “By the end of preschool, most kids can take on full responsibility for all of three items,” ...

Campaigning for the presidency in 2008, Barack Obama pledged to help states implement taxpayer-funded universal preschool--preschool for all.[1] The President's early education plan, for which he has ...

California is expanding its transitional kindergarten (TK) to a universal prekindergarten (UPK) system, and must learn from ...

It’s that time of year when kindergartners proudly march across the stage to receive a certification of completion, enjoy the summer, and look ahead to 1st grade. This transition once represented a ...

As we complete the first week of the school year, I think back to when my kids started kindergarten ten years ago. Back then, I paid homage to one of my favorite books, Robert Fulghum’s “All I Really ...

Recently, a business associate came to my office for an important meeting. During the meeting, I had to take a phone call, and while on the phone, I watched as my guest wandered around my office ...

As an executive recruiter at an award-winning national search firm that offers both retained and interim search solutions, people are often surprised to learn that I started my career as a ...

Many California parents are opting out of kindergarten this year, due to concerns about whether distance learning or attending school for the first time with strangers in masks will be good for ...

The characteristics of a rhombus. The limits of parental authority. Gratitude. By David Sax Mr. Sax is the author of “The Revenge of the Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter” and the parent of a ...