This is the fourth in a series of stories on the challenges impacting California’s efforts to offer high-quality instruction to all 4-year-olds by 2025. Transitional kindergarten for all 4-year-olds ...

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 ...

EdSource · Los Angeles parents fight for and win intensive tutoring for kids hurt by Covid Paula Merrigan loves being a transitional kindergarten (TK) teacher so much she says she may never retire.

“This project redefines an educational space as a way to foster empathy in an integrated kindergarten with neurotypical children and children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It does this by ...

HOCKINSON — In groups of four, Shawn Spears ushered his young students to choose their adventure in the classroom Tuesday afternoon. Drawing, playing with dinosaurs, practicing cutting shapes — it ...

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 ...

There’s a dizzying array of childhood programs, schools and child-care options — all with slightly different names and definitions — which can be confusing to parents trying to make decisions about ...

Why have the majority of districts in southeastern Minnesota gone to all-day, every-day kindergarten? Jerry Reshetar, superintendent of Grand Meadow public schools, said research consistently shows ...