By Anjali Morard Our brains are constantly changing. Even as adults, we can learn new skills, meet new people, or, conversely, almost completely forget people we knew years ago and used to think about every day. Children鈥檚 brains are especially changeable, or 鈥減lastic鈥 as neuroscientists say. This is why they can learn things, like new […]
Editor鈥檚 note: I wanted to write a quick introduction to this post because it differs in two ways from the usual posts in the Education Insights blog.1 – It is not on the usual topic of Education in France but is instead a French person鈥檚 experience of education in the US – it鈥檚 nice to […]
By: Barbara Moross,Former Head of Lower School 鈥 American Section, Lyc茅e International de Saint Germain-en-Laye In France, education is mandatory beginning at age three, and parents are expected to enroll their children in the first year of Pre-school or Maternelle. The three years of Maternelle, Petite Section, Moyenne Section, and Grande Section, make up the […]