California students who attended transitional kindergarten were more engaged in the learning process and better prepared for math and reading when they entered kindergarten than children who did not, ...

SARASOTA — If you were absent to Sarah Mickley’s kindergarten class Wednesday, here’s some of what you missed: a lesson on words with silent “e’s” — cape, tape, lake — and another on tricky “y’s” that ...

Paul Morgan is an associate professor in the Department of Education Policy Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Along with a team at Penn State and colleagues at the University of California, ...

More than half of Louisiana children from poor families start kindergarten without basic reading skills — and most fail to catch up by third grade, a critical year for literacy development, according ...