Engels recounted her journey in her new book, American Kindergarten: Dispatches from the First Year of School. The book ...

Early-childhood advocates have been concerned for some time that the academic expectations of elementary school are filtering down to kindergarten. Now, there’s a bit of pressure from the other ...

When Allison Kempers calls out that it's time to clean up, each 4-year-old in her Wayne Township Preschool classroom hops into action. They return blocks and markers to their assigned buckets. Books ...

A parents’ guide to 112 schools, from South Dallas to Frisco. You put your application in. You get your checkbook out. You put your choices in, and you shake them ...

Every 4-year-old in California can now go to school for free in their local districts. The new grade is called transitional kindergarten — or TK — and it's part of the state’s effort to expand ...

I worried about kindergarten readiness, but chose an intergenerational preschool that pairs kids with dementia patients.

California is in the middle of an ambitious plan to offer transitional kindergarten to all 4-year-olds by the 2025–26 school year in what’s poised to be the largest free preschool program in the ...

Families with young children in the Portage la Prairie School Division have an opportunity to help their kids get comfortable with school before kindergarten through a series of events known as ...

When Humberto Estratalán’s daughter started transitional kindergarten last fall in the Coachella Valley city of La Quinta, he was surprised to hear she’d be in a combination class with kindergartners ...