In April 2024, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) released a much-anticipated report ...

Deciding between preschool and transitional kindergarten isn’t easy for parents. Here’s how eligibility, structure and academic environment may differ.

Developmental kindergarten provides a flexible, play-based approach to help children transition smoothly between preschool and traditional kindergarten while fostering essential skills ...

Children learn best when kindergarten and later elementary curricula build upon preschool curriculum. None of these changes will solve the problem of the inadequate funding that affects many preschool ...

Unfortunately, many educators have come to imagine a rigorous kindergarten curriculum that is guided by a “harder is better” mantra. Unlike previous federal laws, ESSA’s focus on the whole child, ...

When you think back to your own kindergarten experience, it probably involved a half-day program and plenty of fun activities — finger painting, sand play and nap time. Likely the hardest par… ...

Per documents obtained by Fox News Digital, a "social science" curriculum for kindergarten to 5th graders in an Oregon school district instructs them on neo-pronouns.

There’s ongoing debate about what kind of instructional approach is best for young children, with whole-child and literacy/math-based curricula both in play.

Now, several states, including Washington, are rethinking the kindergarten curriculum and encouraging districts to revive time for block-building, coloring and imagining invisible force fields.