The days when kindergarten focused on playing and finger painting may be waning, as early-learning classrooms devote significantly more attention to preparing students to read, according to a new ...

There is a newly published study out of the University of Virginia titled, “Is Kindergarten the New First Grade?” (based on a 2014 working paper), which finds, not surprisingly, that it is. This work ...

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 ...

CHICAGO — Recently, I spent some time observing two math classes — one kindergarten and one second-grade — comprised of students who were performing on the low end of the spectrum relative to their ...

David Boucher's kindergarten classroom was a cacophony of vowel recitations, rhyming words, vocabulary drills and sentence decoding. It was Day 34 of school at Folwell School in Minneapolis. The ...