Sasha Shunk spends story time with the children in her home-based child care program in Portland, Maine. Credit: Courtesy Sasha Shunk The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our ...

Twenty Head Start classrooms serve 365 children in Marin, but there are more children who could be served: Some 450 names are on the preschool program’s waiting list. For Head Start and other early ...

Child-care advocates are celebrating early election results that show San Diego voters have likely approved a ballot measure that could ease the city’s shortage of affordable child-care options.

BOSTON (SHNS) – Sen. Patricia Jehlen knocked on every door in her ward when she first ran for Somerville School Committee in the 1970s, she said Wednesday. And while she did, her 2- and 4-year-old ...

Measuring a child's kidney function has traditionally been time-consuming, costly, and difficult to perform, but a new equation that uses parameters collected at routine office visits can effectively ...