EdSource · School screen time is rising. California parents are asking where to draw the line When Krystyna Kalishevskyi emigrated from Ukraine with her family last year, she had experienced more ...

Corrected: This story has been updated to more accurately describe how Mansfield Elementary’s test scores compare to those of other schools in Connecticut. When the doors to Mansfield Elementary ...

THURSTON COUNTY, Wash. — The Tumwater School District has implemented mandatory play-based learning across all kindergarten classrooms, requiring one hour of daily free play while maintaining ...

As the world continues to change, so must the way we approach education—especially in the early years. Play-based learning has become a cornerstone of modern primary education, shaping a child’s ...

Parents visiting their children’s kindergarten class for the first time may think they’ve arrived at the wrong room, especially if they expect it to resemble the kindergarten they attended as ...

Since a law passed in 2018 requiring New Hampshire schools to use play-based learning in kindergarten, many districts have struggled to define and implement the practice. An initiative from the ...

Connecticut teachers want you to know that “play-based learning” is not an oxymoron. For years child development and education experts have praised the benefits of play-based learning — a pedagogy ...

One of my earliest posts here concerned the definition of play, which I developed further in an article on “Definitions of Play” for Scholarpedia (Gray, 2013) and in my book Free to Learn. I first ...