TK programs in California are designed to prepare 4-year-olds for elementary school by combining play-based learning with ...

After years of gradual expansion, California is making transitional kindergarten available for all 4-year-olds this fall. An ...

This article about play-based kindergarten was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. EVERETT, Wash. — On ...

Practical tips for helping families understand what their kids are learning amid the seeming chaos of a preschool classroom.

In June, kindergarten teachers raised important questions about the balance between play-based learning and developing foundational literacy skills in kindergarten.

Steve Oates is leading the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County district to embrace more play-based learning in kindergarten, counter to a major trend of making early-childhood education more academic. He ...

A new interactive classroom is now open at the America’s First Kindergarten historical site in Watertown. The addition is connected to the original schoolhouse, which dates back to 1856, and welcomes ...

Kindergarten is no longer free-play and finger-painting. The focus is academics and the pressure is real. It’s time to consider a course correction: less pressure and more play.

Imagine a wondrous world of Play-Doh sculptures and bubble-blowing, circle time and Dr. Seuss rhymes -- a place where joy ...