Pennsylvania is using a new kindergarten-entrance assessment this fall, and a review of the way it’s handling the project points to key challenges states face as they use tests to gauge what students ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Lawmakers in the Ohio House of Representatives want to eliminate the state’s primary measure of whether children are ready for kindergarten. In the House-passed version of the ...

Ensuring that children are developmentally ready for school on day one of kindergarten is critical. The better prepared children are for kindergarten, the more successful they are likely to be in ...

Incoming kindergarteners get an “on-ramp” to elementary school as part of Oregon's Jump Start Kindergarten Program. Four years ago this month, one of the most devastating wildfires in Oregon’s history ...

For decades, as wealthy parents invested more and more time and money on enrichment for their young children, students in poverty fell further and further behind. New research, however, suggests that ...

California students who attended transitional kindergarten were more engaged in the learning process and better prepared for math and reading when they entered kindergarten than children who did not, ...

The rules keep changing for how kindergarten readiness is measured in Florida. Here is an at-a-glance look at changes over the years: — 1997-1999: Each of Florida’s 67 counties uses its own system to ...

Children who are ready for kindergarten have a better shot at academic success years later, even through high school, according to a new study. The study was conducted by an initiative within United ...

NEWPORT, Ky. (WKRC) - Alarming new data shows only 19% of Newport Independent Schools students were ready for kindergarten last school year. That puts Newport second-to-last in the state for ...

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On May 15, the Florida Department of Education released the 2017-2018 Voluntary Pre-K readiness rates, and statewide, only 58% of children who participated in VPK were ready for kindergarten. In ...