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 ...

When Illinois lawmakers made full-day kindergarten a requirement for all public schools by 2027, they encouraged the ...

Research into the academic skills of five-year-old children shows that parents' beliefs and cooperation with their ...

Kindergarten and first-grade students at Pekin and Washington Elementary Schools participated in the annual Chick Hatching ...

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 ...

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 ...

The research is clear. Academic training in kindergarten has no long-term benefit. In fact, it may cause long-term harm. It does not reduce the education gap between the rich and the poor, which is ...