While kindergarten is meant to be a gentle, low-stress introduction to formal schooling, it’s a critically important milestone for little learners, who are developing at an astounding pace.

As a new grade level for four-year-olds rolls out statewide, a data analysis shows less than half of them are enrolling in ...

Millions of children will grab lunchboxes, backpacks and rolling bags and head to their first day of kindergarten this year. Some will go for a half day and some for a full. Some will attend private ...

Notions about how the American education system should function, from kindergarten to college, are changing. The very idea of constructs such as grade levels, and a rigid division between high school ...

Early-childhood advocates have been concerned for some time that the academic expectations of elementary school are filtering down to kindergarten. Now, there’s a bit of pressure from the other ...

Local schools say many children are lacking important skills when they start kindergarten and it is putting them at a disadvantage. Kindergarten readiness assessments show, in some cases, more than ...

When you think back to your own kindergarten experience, it probably involved a half-day program and plenty of fun activities — finger painting, sand play and nap time. Likely the hardest parts were ...

Kindergarten “redshirting”—when a parent decides to delay the start of their child’s academic career by a year—was once largely a choice made by higher-income parents of white boys. But the COVID-19 ...

Many California parents dreaded returning to remote learning last fall, but they did it anyway, holding onto hopes of going back to campus at some point during the school year. But for those whose ...

Many California parents are opting out of kindergarten this year, due to concerns about whether distance learning or attending school for the first time with strangers in masks will be good for ...

Step into an American preschool classroom today and you are likely to be bombarded with what we educators call a print-rich environment, every surface festooned with alphabet charts, bar graphs, word ...