Ontario’s new kindergarten curriculum changes how kids will be taught to read, adds fractions and coding to math and even covers basic navigational skills. These expectations for the province’s ...

At one time kindergarteners played to learn much of the school day. They explored. They learned to get along with other children and made friends. But in the past few decades, the pendulum has swung ...

Parents visiting their children’s kindergarten class for the first time may think they’ve arrived at the wrong room, especially if they expect it to resemble the kindergarten they attended as ...

The value of kindergarten goes well beyond learning early academic skills. Kids also develop cognitive, physical, and social and emotional skills, such as problem-solving, sharing and making friends. ...

Five years after the coronavirus pandemic shuttered the globe, the bulk of the 3.6 million children born in the United States in 2020 are starting kindergarten, providing many youngsters their first ...

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This year, every 4-year-old in California can enter transitional kindergarten at their local school district. But fewer parents know about TK, and that it can be an option for their family, than they ...

Teaching kindergarten can be a very challenging assignment, for a variety of reasons. For one, kindergarten is the first school experience for most children. This means it is also the first time that ...

Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation this week that will expand free preschool in New Jersey, as well as full-day kindergarten to the few remaining districts that don’t yet offer it by 2030. Early ...

The idea, known as “redshirting,” has downsides, but proponents say it could help close a persistent gender gap in education. By Claire Cain Miller Claire Cain Miller is working on a series of ...

It's always busy at Rachel Mullett's house in Gander. With four children under age five, play time is all the time. The dynamic will change in September, though, when five-year-old Hudson goes off to ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio House on Wednesday passed a bill that seeks to end confusion over kindergarten cutoff dates. House Bill 114 passed unanimously, 93 to 0. The bill now heads to the Senate for ...