Welcome to today’s online chat about the behavior and discipline of prekindergarten children. This is a hot topic in education circles and one with implications that go far beyond the preschool years.

But the statistics were not surprising to Walter S. Gilliam, a professor of psychology at Yale University and the director of the university’s Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social ...

Preschool teachers accused of making children stand naked in a closet in a Head Start classroom in East St. Louis and of throwing a child against a cabinet in St. Louis County have raised the question ...

This article was originally published in EducationNC. For the past year, two organizations — EPiC (Empowered Parents in Community) and we are (working to extend anti-racist education) — have been part ...

Advocates working to address school discipline disparities in Minnesota want to ban the use of suspensions for the state’s preschoolers, saying removing young students from the classroom mars their ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

I spend time each month providing consultation to preschools to help them understand the root cause of the challenging behaviors in their classrooms and establish developmentally appropriate, ...