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 ...

Teachers in Aurora identify ten key developmental markers that signal preschool readiness, from emotional regulation t ...

Seven months into the school year at Linwood Holton Elementary, in Richmond, Virginia, Jenna Conway’s daughter takes a more relaxed approach to virtual kindergarten. Credit: Jenna Conway The Hechinger ...

Last school year was hard enough. Denise Ladson Johnson’s son Moses struggled with the abrupt transition to distance learning in the spring, with having to say goodbye to his teacher and classmates ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Sixty-five percent of kindergarten-age children in Franklin County do not have a basic grasp of letters and numbers, prompting Ohio to say they’re not ready for kindergarten.

From cutting and counting fruit to fun treasure hunts, CHALK Preschool's April Schafer shares her best tips to promote education at home As director of CHALK Preschool, April Schafer knows a thing or ...

About a year ago, a friend of my wife’s was touring the kindergarten classroom at her local school, in a middle-class, racially mixed New York neighborhood. She noticed the lack of blocks, craft ...

This is a golden age of choice for preschool TV that helps kids from social-emotional learning to STEM subjects These shows, like Sesame Street, are blurring the line between entertainment and ...

The president's executive order would push AI education in K–12 schools; the idea gets support from education experts, but raises concerns about how early students should learn about the technology.