While kindergarten is meant to be a gentle, low-stress introduction to formal schooling, it’s a critically important milestone for little learners, who are developing at an astounding pace.

Millions of children will grab lunchboxes, backpacks and rolling bags and head to their first day of kindergarten this year. Some will go for a half day and some for a full. Some will attend private ...

Early-childhood advocates have been concerned for some time that the academic expectations of elementary school are filtering down to kindergarten. Now, there’s a bit of pressure from the other ...

Local schools say many children are lacking important skills when they start kindergarten and it is putting them at a disadvantage. Kindergarten readiness assessments show, in some cases, more than ...

When Krystyna Kalishevskyi emigrated from Ukraine with her family last year, she had experienced more trauma and fear than a 4-year-old can cope with. Going to school in California was a big challenge ...

It’s that time of year when kindergartners proudly march across the stage to receive a certification of completion, enjoy the summer, and look ahead to 1st grade. This transition once represented a ...

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 parts were ...

Abdiel, 4, celebrates his birthday during his first week of transitional kindergarten at Bill Libbon Elementary School in Santa Maria. Credit: Nick Forselles / Noozhawk photo On a sunny morning in ...

Denver Public Schools kindergartners embarked on a poetic journey through the Kindergarten Poetry Project, learning ...

Step into an American preschool classroom today and you are likely to be bombarded with what we educators call a print-rich environment, every surface festooned with alphabet charts, bar graphs, word ...