ASTON, Pa.— In Jodie Murphy’s kindergarten class, math lessons go beyond the basics of counting and recognizing numbers. On a recent morning, the children used plastic red and yellow dots for ...

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 ...

The kindergarten through second-grade scores wouldn't affect school grades for now, Liebman said, though the Department of Education might take the results into account if principals requested it.

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 ...

Commenters on OregonLive take issue with whether students even need to know their letters and basic math when they start kindergarten -- and certainly whether government has a role in making sure ...

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.

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.