Filling a child’s new backpack with a box of crayons and school supplies is part of the bittersweet ritual of preparing a kindergartener for the first day of school. What parents may not realize is ...

Eager to watch a foundational skills lesson, we enter a kindergarten classroom in a large urban school district in mid-November. The children are sitting cross-legged on the rug at the front of the ...

North Carolina's Office of Early Learning released a new guide to support families and caregivers preparing children for kindergarten.

Lynbrook kindergarten teacher Juliana Rotman stood at the front of the class, held up cards with the letters that spelled the word “swift” and asked her students to follow along using only the sounds ...

Not very much, according to many educators. The Common Core standards, which have been adopted in most states, call for teaching legible writing, but only in kindergarten and first grade. After that, ...

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