It is better for pre-schoolers not to play on their new playground equipment at all—equipment resting on grass and dirt ... learned that it must keep the kids off the equipment until somehow ...

In a light and airy classroom at Early Partners preschool, in a renovated firehouse in New Orleans' Lower Garden District, ...

A new study has found that almost half of preschool children do not venture outside to play each day. The research, conducted by Seattle Children’s Hospital and the University of Washington ...

In between are a variety of methods either entirely based on play, or incorporating elements of it. Read more: Preschool benefits all children, but not all children get it. Here's what the ...

But debating whether a kindergarten or preschool classroom should be play-based or academic is the wrong question, experts say. “We need to get beyond this notion that young children are either ...