Local schools say many children are lacking important skills when they start kindergarten and it is putting them at a disadvantage. Kindergarten readiness assessments show, in some cases, more than ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ANNISTON — Early childhood education plays a pivotal role in a child's development, laying a crucial foundation for future success ...

Early childhood experts agree that systemic educational equities cannot be addressed without equitable access to high-quality learning that spans from birth to age 5. So it may come as a surprise that ...

Applications begin Tuesday for a free summer preschool program to help prepare hundreds of Elkhart County children for kindergarten. County leaders say there are not enough affordable, quality pre-K ...

There’s a science lab at Rollins College where instead of Bunsen burners and microscopes researchers use crayons, papier ...

Kindergarten “redshirting”—when a parent decides to delay the start of their child’s academic career by a year—was once largely a choice made by higher-income parents of white boys. But the COVID-19 ...

Dr. Sara Bode (far right) high fives Juri Sleet, 4, after she and Crystal Webb, a kindergarten readiness coordinator, talk with Sleet's grandmother, Quintina Davis (left), about the literacy screening ...

This year, every 4-year-old in California can enter transitional kindergarten at their local school district. But fewer parents know about TK, and that it can be an option for their family, than they ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Phil Reilly is part of an accidental educational movement. Each weekday morning, he rises in his Northwest Philadelphia home, reads ...

Cincinnati Preschool Promise (CPP), an organization dedicated to building equitable access to early childhood education, reports that it provided tuition assistance to 1,090 preschool students last ...

San Diego Unified School District leaders Monday announced that free transitional kindergarten is being expanded for the next school year with the addition of nine new classrooms and 180 additional ...