There was a time when after-school activities meant riding bikes, shooting hoops in the backyard or even a neighborhood game of hide-and-seek that went on until dusk. In today’s complex world, ...

Exercise is making our kids smarter. That’s what is being proven within the walls of Traverse City Area Public Schools, where Movement Labs are leveraging the benefits of exercise to dramatically ...

Chicago Public Schools said it will tap into $21.5 million in surplus tax increment financing funds to hire extra teachers for arts and daily physical education classes. Last week, the financially ...

Kindergarten in the United States is not what it used to be. For one thing, it’s longer. In 1998, only about 56 percent of children attended full-day kindergarten. Today, that figure is 80 percent, ...

The days when kindergarten focused on playing and finger painting may be waning, as early-learning classrooms devote significantly more attention to preparing students to read, according to a new ...

WEST NYACK - Ian Alcantara-Beltre holds up a plastic ball, calls out "Red!" and goes the next one, and calls out "Green!" as he skips around the sensory room at Rockland BOCES preschool. The ...

Before the last school bell rings on her career in education in June, Joan Robinson still has plenty of work to do. After all, the message the physical-education teacher works so hard to impart to her ...