A new application process intended to simplify pre-kindergarten enrollment has left parents confused and angry about options for their children, New York City’s public advocate said.

Computer Cool School from Fisher-Price has light-up activity keys, a surprisingly sensitive touch pad and a software package that can manage settings for up to five children.

As humans, we want to believe that creativity and innovation come in flashes of pure brilliance, with great thunderclaps and echoing ahas. Balderdash.

Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein announced plans to help simplify the often bewildering process of enrolling children in prekindergarten and kindergarten classes in New York City.

How parents and their kids come together around a children’s show and its merchandise.

Forget Second Life. The real virtual world gold rush centers on the grammar-school set.

Congress passed and sent to President Bush a five-year Head Start bill that opens up the preschool program to more children.

Two studies could change the way teachers and parents understand children who are disruptive or withdrawn.

Many entrepreneurs such as Deborah Capone, who is starting her own day care center, face perils in negotiating the city bureaucracy.

How universal pre-K could benefit middle- and upper-classchildren as much as poor ones.

The city needs to fill the growing demand for pre-K classes.

States want children to be a year older when they enter school. This could lead to better test scores and more inequality.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton will call for universal prekindergarten, and Senator John McCain will urge more efficiency and ethics in government.

There’s nothing like introducing unplanned chaos into a room full of 3- and 4-year-olds.

Keeping a preschooler in day care increased the likelihood that the child would become disruptive, a study found.

Doing too many things at once doesn't save any time, and could be harming your health and career success. "Hurry, bustle, and agitation are the never-failing symptoms of a weak and frivolous mind," Lord Chesterfield wrote to his son in the 1740s. It's still true today. Multitasking isn't a substitute for setting sensible priorities; nor will it allow you to produce the results you are capable of giving — if only you give yourself the time needed. One of the best routes to success, in almost any endeavor, is to learn the skill of paying close attention only to what matters. The fashion for multitasking needs to go the way of crinolines and powdered wigs.

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The three essential steps in leadership can all be defined by the act of looking: first within, then to the future, and finally behind, to see who is willing to follow you. Do this, again and again, and you won't go far wrong.

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Prospective and current graduate business students who used a Web site to cheat on entrance examinations over the past five years could have their scores thrown out.