With school in full swing across the United States, the littlest students are getting used to the blocks table and the dress-up corner - and that staple of American public education, the standardized ...

With school in full swing across the United States, the littlest students are getting used to the blocks table and the dress-up corner — and that staple of American public education, the standardized ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – For the first time, a Franklin County nonprofit has access to data that could be an important step in addressing the kindergarten readiness crisis. More than half the kids in ...

Learning disparities based on race show up in kindergarten and persist, according to assessment data released Thursday by Oregon education officials. Four years ago, kindergarteners began taking tests ...

MIDDLETOWN — Most Middletown children entering kindergarten need extra help in some areas of literacy, according to recently released state test scores. On average, most Middletown children score ...

Teachers such as Jessika Evers, pictured in 2012, meet with the new kindergartners like Delila Ortiz Ponce at Gilbert Park Elementary. Such meetings are used to gauge the readiness of children for ...

In the not-too-distant past, the kindergarten classrooms at Pleasant Grove Elementary in Heflin, Ala., looked much the same as classrooms for older children. Desks were arranged in rows. Children ...

The Mississippi Department of Education has released the results of the kindergarten and pre-K assessments and the news is once again mostly good for Coast schools. The assessments are given twice a ...

Some students enter kindergarten in the Pine Belt and don't know the difference between the front and back of a book. Others may not know their name. But then there are some children who come to ...

Kindergarten teacher Michelle Davis gives a fist bump to Angelique Luciano, 6, after administering a quick literacy diagnostic test to her at F.P. Caillet Elementary in Dallas on Wednesday, May 5, ...

The format of kindergarten assessment varies widely. The Iowa Test of Basic Skills, which is used by schools across the United States, runs more than an hour as a teacher reads dozens of questions ...