Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The College of Wooster Preschool, formerly called the COW Nursery School, will continue its 76-year history with its emphasis on ...

Not too many decades back, children’s libraries and museums contained books that the librarian had to retrieve from the stacks for a child to use or from glass cases of ceramic dolls and toys on ...

In my previous posts, we explored why summer feels so boring for kids and why traditional activity lists often make the problem worse. Today, I want to dive deeper into what child-led learning ...

What if everything your child enjoyed doing – lying in a hammock, building a fort, playing a video game or whatever it may be – was considered a form of school? This is one of the foundational ideas ...

Italian educator Maria Montessori in Rome in 1951. Her philosophy of child-directed learning was geared toward underprivileged students, but today it is often associated with upper-class schools.

What if everything your child enjoyed doing – lying in a hammock, building a fort, playing a video game or whatever it may be – was considered a form of school? This is one of the foundational ideas ...