NPR

This online learning program is teaching preschoolers in crisis situations

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with reporter Anya Kamenetz about an Arabic-language remote learning program called "Ahlan Simsim." It's a show by the Sesame Workshop, created for Syrian refugees. Over ...
The Hechinger Report

For preschoolers after the pandemic, more states say: Learn outdoors

A preschooler at the Carrie Murray Nature Center Forest Preschool fills a bucket with water from a stream in Leakin Park. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one ...
Education Week

Preschool Program Focused on Executive-Function Skills Provokes Scholarly Debate

An early-childhood curriculum that aims to help youngsters control their impulses, recall and use what they’ve learned, and adjust when circumstances change—skills known as executive function—has been ...
Education Week

Preschool Network Putting ‘Innovation’ Grant to Test

At the start of the school day at AppleTree Public Charter School‘s campus in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, the 20 otherwise-wiggly students in Monique Twyman’s preschool class are ...
LAist

This online learning program is teaching preschoolers in crisis situations

Over the past couple of years, millions of kids in the Middle East have been tuning into a remote learning program called "Ahlan Simsim." KELLY: The title means "Welcome Sesame" in Arabic. It is an ...
WUNC

This online learning program is teaching preschoolers in crisis situations

Over the past couple of years, millions of kids in the Middle East have been tuning into a remote learning program called "Ahlan Simsim." (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "AHLAN SIMSIM") UNIDENTIFIED MUSICAL ...