For 20 kindergartners at Parr’s Ridge Elementary School, the morning is packed with singing and dancing, playing an alphabet game with sticks, and cutting big oval shapes out of paper. And while these ...

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 ...

Some students enter kindergarten in the Pine Belt and don't know the difference between the front and back of a book. Others may not know their name. But then there are some children who come to ...

Kindergarten screenings help ensure children are ready for school and may identify if extra support is needed. These screenings assess skills such as self-care, language, and motor skills to help ...

COOS BAY — Coos Bay kindergartners started school on Monday, but introductions, classroom visits and the Kindergarten Assessment took place last week. The state-mandated assessment launched last year, ...

Rosedale Elementary kindergartner Brooklynn Corey listens as her teacher tells her to name as many letters as possible on a sheet of paper. (Wendy Owen/Beaverton Leader) Before Rosedale Elementary ...

Several weeks before the official start of the coming school year, 18 kindergartners-to-be wearing big-kid backpacks filed into Maria Surface’s snug, sunny classroom at Beaverton’s Vose Elementary ...

At Summit Hall Elementary School in Gaithersburg, kindergartners learn math by looking for patterns in stories, making patterns with Froot Loops and crayons, and jump-jump-hopping on a classroom rug.

McMaster University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. McMaster University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Teachers’ perceptions and judgments of ...