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A preschool (also nursery school, kindergarten outside the US and UK) is an educational establishment offering early childhood education to children between the ages of three and five, prior to the commencement of compulsory education at primary school. They may be privately operated or government run, and the costs may be subsidized. ==Terminology== The following terms may be used for educational establishments for this age group: *Kindergarten is used in many parts of world, with the exception of the UK, as well as the US, Canada, and some states of Australia, where the term is used to refer to the first stage of compulsory education offered at the age of five. *Pre-K (or Pre-Kindergarten) is an initiative to improve access to preschool for disadvantaged children in the US. *Nursery School (UK and US) *Grade 0, which is also sometimes classified as "a mixture between preschool and a school regime".〔Turner, Martin; Rack, John Paul (2004). ''The study of dyslexia.'' Birkhäuser, ISBN 978-0-306-48531-2〕〔Dustmann, Christian; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Machin, Stephen (2008). ''The economics of education and training.'' Springer, ISBN 978-3-7908-2021-8〕 *Pre-Primary 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「preschool」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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