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 ...

A federal grant program in the works to help states jump-start kindergarten-entry assessments is renewing debate among early-childhood educators about the benefits and pitfalls of evaluating young ...

In this 2012 file photo, teacher Jessika Evers meets with new kindergartner Delila Ortiz Ponce at Gilbert Park Elementary. Gilbert Park Elementary was one of the schools that piloted the kindergarten ...

A rigorous new kindergarten curriculum and assessment program in Montgomery County public schools has produced data showing significant gains in reading skills among the district's 9,000 ...

Only about a quarter of Illinois kindergarten students are ready for school in three key developmental areas, according to the results of a state assessment report released Tuesday. The 2018-19 ...

All kindergarten students enrolled in Aiken County Public Schools will participate in the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment this fall to help teachers understand their students as individual learners, ...

Philip S. Cicero is a retired superintendent of Lynbrook public schools and an adjunct professor of education at Adelphi University. There's a new testing movement on the horizon in New York State's ...

This is from the online archives of The Star of North Augusta, a collection of more than 25,000 articles published from October 2007 to February 2022. All kindergarten students enrolled in Aiken ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Teachers’ perceptions and judgments of student skills are key to measuring children’s academic progress. But educators’ own biases ...

Oregon’s achievement gap between white students and children of color shows up in kindergarten, according to scores out Thursday. Harrison Park teacher Donna Shinagawa quizzes incoming kindergarten ...

FILE PHOTO: A child's handwriting on a whiteboard is seen in a kindergarten class at Walsh Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois, March 1, 2013. REUTERS/Jim Young By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) - ...

The Oregon Kindergarten Assessment will again be given to all children entering into kindergarten in the 2014-2015 school year. The individual assessments will be given September 2 -5, 2014 at each of ...