Today we explore the simple, powerful tool that is still alive and well in some early learning classrooms: the wooden block. You might call it the anti-app. Measurement. Balance. Math. Negotiation.

Before San Antonio’s streets first were paved in the 1880s, they were an ever-changing adventure to walk or ride. With heavy rains, “water was several inches deep, and the mud inches deeper,” writes ...

Four-year-olds Jacques and Corinne work with teacher Todd Erickson to balance and secure two semicircular wooden blocks atop two long, straight ones. Today we explore the simple, powerful tool that is ...

For our Tools of the Trade series, we're exploring the iconic, seminal tools that some of us remember using in our early schooling. Things like the slide rule and protractor, the Bunsen burner and the ...

Don't call it a comeback: Blocks have been here for more than 100 years. Studies have shown they can help build language and cognition skills —... Before Minecraft, The Blocks Were Made Of Wood For ...