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About half of Fort Worth鈥檚 preschoolers receive high-quality instructional support. Here鈥檚 what else city leaders learned.

At day camp, some life lessons for us all.

For decades, Dallas College has been teaching and certifying veterinary technicians long-distance. And the program was succeeding way before the pandemic forced the world to take on long-distance and virtual learning.

Many first-graders are in a classroom for the first time and don't understand the routines. The result is often chaotic, but also normal for children this age, says a professor of early childhood education.

Areas known as book deserts are low on reading material and places like libraries and bookstores. A school district northwest of Fort Worth, which is located in such a desert, provide students with books during the summer through a mobile library initiative.

Most people know Bill Nye the Science Guy. Well, Texas has its own science booster of sorts, but she is what the Dallas Observer called "the hipper, more鈥�

There's a huge market for books, classes and smartphone apps that teach baby sign language and claim it can speed up spoken language development.

There鈥檚 plenty of advice out there for parents on how to raise smart kids. What works, though, is still a question researchers are trying to answer.Today鈥�

We tend to associate "studying" with 鈥渉itting the books鈥� -- lots of discipline and focus. At 1 p.m. on Think, education reporter Benedict Carey of the New鈥�