Think math is uninteresting? Try using it to answer fundamental problems that provoke interest and wonderment, such as calculating the distance to the moon. "It is a beautiful problem with an eloquent ...

Today, New York City’s 1.1 million public-school students return to their classrooms—or, in the case of about seventy thousand four-year-olds enrolled in the city’s pre-K program, go to their ...

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As early childhood researchers, we’ve spent our careers steeped in an enormous body of work that documents the long-term positive impacts of quality early care and education on the lives of those ...

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