Following a public outcry from parents and teachers, the Los Angeles Unified School District has decided to make timed reading tests optional for most transitional kindergarten students. Find expert ...

With school in full swing across the United States, the littlest students are getting used to the blocks table and the dress-up corner — and that staple of American public education, the standardized ...

With school in full swing across the United States, the littlest students are getting used to the blocks table and the dress-up corner - and that staple of American public education, the standardized ...

This is used to predict how they will score on third grade MCA reading and math tests. I also test the students three times a year using the Fountas and Pinnell reading scale, which I find the most ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (CNS) -- New Kindergarten Readiness Exam results released by the state Department of Education show nearly half of students entering kindergarten are not prepared. Only 54 percent of ...

The Oregon Kindergartner Assessment, administered every fall by kindergarten teachers such as myself, may have been a good idea in theory. Let's see how students are doing as they enter kindergarten ...

MIDDLETOWN — Most Middletown children entering kindergarten need extra help in some areas of literacy, according to recently released state test scores. On average, most Middletown children score ...

The percentage of Florida youngsters deemed ready for kindergarten plummeted last year, thanks to a new test that tripped up many 5-year-olds. About 54 percent of the students who started kindergarten ...

EVERETT — On a quiet Valentine’s Day morning, a class of 4- and 5-year-olds at Jefferson Elementary took a seat on the classroom rug, each on a square that matches the color of their assigned desks.

Children who participate in high-quality “universal pre-kindergarten” (UPK) programs are better off—both academically and socially—than their peers who attend other top-ranked programs in Cuyahoga ...

A national push to make public schools more rigorous and hold teachers more accountable has led to a vast expansion of testing in kindergarten. And more exams are on the way, including a test meant to ...