Tatiana Johnson waits patiently with her hand in the air, one of many school-going skills she’s learned in a summer preschool bridge program in Oakland that could be fundamental to her success in ...

EdSource · How a charter school serving adults became embroiled in scandal and sparked calls for reform Children coming into kindergarten with no preschool experience may not know how to share or how ...

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Students at Waukegan’s Robbie M. Lightfoot Early Learning Center learn how to raise their hand to speak, how to write their name, recognize the letters of the alphabet, the value of numbers and much ...

The kindergarten year can be a critical one—setting the tone for students and influencing their academic success in elementary school and beyond. But of the 4 million children who will start ...

When they arrived, many of the soon-to-be kindergarteners in Miami Elementary School’s summer preschool program in Lafayette, Indiana, could not spell their names or grip a pencil. They hadn’t learned ...

A review of the research on “redshirting” young children whose summer birthdays fall close to the start of kindergarten suggests delaying them a year does not pay off academically in the long run.

My daughter missed the last three months of her preschool year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but I'm not at all concerned about "kindergarten readiness." As we enter the summer months, in fact, I'm ...

June is to supposed to be the one month parents have off. But this summer, there’s no rest for the weary helicopter moms and dads desperate to get their toddlers into the best preschools in the ...

Admissions stress isn't just for the college-bound these days. On Friday afternoon, parents across Los Angeles will be checking their emails frantically as they await the biggest decision affecting ...