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 ...

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 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 ...

Washoe County School District kindergarten teachers on Tuesday said they were disappointed and blindsided by the district’s ...

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 ...

COOS BAY — Coos Bay kindergartners started school on Monday, but introductions, classroom visits and the Kindergarten Assessment took place last week. The state-mandated assessment launched last year, ...

ELDERSBURG — Students stood along the edges of an oval rug in Cindy Stone’s kindergarten classroom at Eldersburg Elementary School Tuesday afternoon. “I know we just learned this, but what was the ...

Delila Ortiz Ponce, a kindergartner at Gilbert Park Elementary in the David Douglas school district, answered kindergarten readiness questions for her teacher, Jessika Evers, when taking the new state ...

The Oregon Department of Education and the Early Learning Division jointly released results Thursday from the 2017-18 kindergarten assessment. This year, for the first time, there is a cohort of ...

While there's growing interest in assessing school readiness, education experts differ on what to measure and how. Here's ...

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