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 ...

Goodbye Play-Doh, hello No. 2 pencils. Because of a tough new curriculum and teacher evaluations, 4- and 5-year-olds are learning how to fill in bubbles on standardized math tests to show how much ...

WEBVTT MARYLAND HAS COME UP WITH A NEW TEST WHICH NEARLY 67,000 KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS WILL TAKE. IT IS CALLED READY FOR KINDERGARTEN. IT IS NOT THE TEST CAUSING CONCERN FOR SOME TEACHERS. IT IS THE ...

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 ...

Kindergarten teachers report spending much of their math instructional time teaching students basic counting skills and how to recognize geometric shapes -— skills the students have already mastered ...

One in seven elementary school principals want their schools to participate in a controversial pilot program to test kids in kindergarten through second grade for math and reading skills, education ...

Increased academic pressure and testing in kindergarten is bringing everyone to tears—including the teachers. When Dr. Peter Gray wrote a piece for his Psychology Today blog about kindergarten ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - On Wednesday, March 11, parents will gather at the Public Museum to learn more about the kindergarten choices available in Grand Rapids Public Schools. Parents can learn about ...