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 ...

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 ...

The littlest students are getting used to the blocks table and the dress-up corner — and that staple of American public education, the standardized test.

At the end of each year, all students took the math test developed for the IES’ Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99, which includes both multiple-choice and open ...

When the fall 2012 kindergarten test results are seen as a group, however, the data show many 5- and 6-year-olds do not have the skills expected for kids entering school. The biggest deficit is math.