Age of Learning Launches New App to Access More Than 5,000 ABCmouse.com Learning Activities for Preschool – Kindergarten
Age of Learning is proud to announce that the ABCmouse.com Early Learning Academy app is now available for iOS and Android, with access to our complete award-winning curriculum on tablets and smartphones! ABCmouse.com is the leading and most comprehensive online learning resource for children ages 2 through 6+, with more than 5,000 carefully designed learning activities encompassing […]
Early Childhood Education Increasingly a Nationwide Priority
There’s big news in a recent poll released by the First Five Years Fund: People throughout the country now broadly support strengthening early childhood education. Indeed, 85% of those polled say that ensuring that children get a strong start in life is one of the nation’s top priorities. We’re pleased to see this issue is now getting […]
A Partnership to Help Prevent the Summer Slide
Age of Learning was pleased to participate in the Families In Schools Passport to Success Day this past Saturday in downtown Los Angeles. The event featured California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, who spoke about the important work that Families In Schools is doing. Families In Schools (FIS) is the leading organization working in Los Angeles and […]
Age of Learning Supports Early Literacy and the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading
A growing body of research suggests that reading proficiency by third grade is one of the most powerful predictors of future academic and even career success. According to the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading (CGLR), “74% of students who fail to read proficiently by the end of third grade falter in later grades and often drop out before […]
Age of Learning Makes ABCmouse.com Free for Libraries
This past weekend at the 2014 American Library Association Annual Conference, Age of Learning, Inc. launched ABCmouse.com® for Libraries™, a fully featured, free-for-libraries version of ABCmouse.com Early Learning Academy, our award-winning online curriculum used by millions of children. ABCmouse.com for Libraries gives children free access through all of the 16,000 U.S. public libraries to the leading and […]
Building Educational Excellence: Hall of Fame Teacher & Teacher of the Year Talk About Age of Learning
For our first post on the Age of Learning blog, we decided to start at the beginning, interviewing two members of our Curriculum Board who have been central to shaping ABCmouse.com since before the site launched and who continue to guide our growing early learning curriculum: Kim Oliver Burnim (2006 National Teacher of the Year) and Dr. Rebecca Palacios (2014 National […]