As pressure to raise scores on standardized tests has trickled down to the lower grades, kindergarten and even pre-kindergarten classrooms have focused more on academic skills. But debating whether a ...

The Tumwater School District has implemented mandatory play-based learning across all kindergarten classrooms, requiring one ...

California has made a new grade, transitional kindergarten, available for all four-year-olds. LAist reporters spent a day in ...

What’s a civic assembly? It’s a process by which a small group of residents get together and work out solutions to thorny ...

Filling a child’s new backpack with a box of crayons and school supplies is part of the bittersweet ritual of preparing a kindergartener for the first day of school. What parents may not realize is ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - First Steps Kent and Grand Rapids Community College are partnering in an initiative help more children enter kindergarten prepared to succeed. This fall the two entities are teaming ...

With the start of the school year looming, some parents will choose to delay the start of their child’s educational experience, keeping them in day care or out of school entirely for another year. As ...

Cari Miller, chancellor of Early Learning at the Florida Department of Education, administers school readiness programs that provides subsidized childcare for eligible families. Last summer, at the ...

The state of Minnesota is funding free, all-day kindergarten for the first time starting this year in an effort to provide an academic boost to low-income, special needs, and English-learner students.