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 ...

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 ...

Baby’s eyes peer into everyone and everything to search for reactions, expressions, shapes, and textures. Their little hands and legs want to hold, touch, and kick things, and their brains are forming ...

California’s transitional kindergarten instruction should remain developmentally appropriate and prioritize play as a form of learning, the state emphasized in a proposed clarification of the ...

A bill requiring Iowa preschools and kindergartens to add play-based learning to their curriculum is advancing in the Iowa Legislature. House File 2652 was recommended for passage by a subcommittee ...

A bill at the Statehouse could change what the school day looks like for Iowa’s youngest students. Iowa lawmakers are considering a proposal that would require schools to build more play-based ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - A bill to require instruction based in play has passed the Iowa House unanimously. House File 2652 would require 90 minutes of play-based instruction for half-day preschool, ...