Pennsylvania is using a new kindergarten-entrance assessment this fall, and a review of the way it’s handling the project points to key challenges states face as they use tests to gauge what students ...

A federal grant program in the works to help states jump-start kindergarten-entry assessments is renewing debate among early-childhood educators about the benefits and pitfalls of evaluating young ...

ELDERSBURG — Students stood along the edges of an oval rug in Cindy Stone’s kindergarten classroom at Eldersburg Elementary School Tuesday afternoon. “I know we just learned this, but what was the ...

Q: I am trying to obtain information regarding what my daughter will need to know for the kindergarten assessment this fall. When I asked her current preschool teacher, the answer was, "Don’t worry; ...

BOSTON (AP) - Massachusetts education officials are developing plans to test students as soon as they enter kindergarten to determine how prepared they are to start school. Massachusetts Education ...

Delila Ortiz Ponce, a kindergartner at Gilbert Park Elementary in the David Douglas school district, answered kindergarten readiness questions for her teacher, Jessika Evers, when taking the new state ...

Petal School District Assistant Superintendent Dede Smith is happy with how the district's kindergartners scored on the state's fall kindergarten readiness assessment — the primary purpose of which is ...

With school in full swing across the United States, the littlest students are getting used to the blocks table and the dress-up corner — and that staple of American public education, the standardized ...

Learning disparities based on race show up in kindergarten and persist, according to assessment data released Thursday by Oregon education officials. Four years ago, kindergarteners began taking tests ...

The Mississippi Department of Education has released the results of the kindergarten and pre-K assessments and the news is once again mostly good for Coast schools. The assessments are given twice a ...

Jacob Wismer kindergarten teacher Melissa Gilchrist chats with incoming kindergartner Devansh Sahita after his kindergarten assessment test. (Wendy Owen/Beaverton Leader) The latest education news ...