For some young children in Columbus, Ohio, reading assessments don’t start in the kindergarten classroom — they happen first in the doctor’s office.

A federal grant program in the works to help states jump-start kindergarten-entry assessments is renewing debate among early-childhood educators about the benefits and pitfalls of evaluating young ...

In the not-too-distant past, the kindergarten classrooms at Pleasant Grove Elementary in Heflin, Ala., looked much the same as classrooms for older children. Desks were arranged in rows. Children ...

Oregon’s achievement gap between white students and children of color shows up in kindergarten, according to scores out Thursday. Harrison Park teacher Donna Shinagawa quizzes incoming kindergarten ...

In this 2012 file photo, teacher Jessika Evers meets with new kindergartner Delila Ortiz Ponce at Gilbert Park Elementary. Gilbert Park Elementary was one of the schools that piloted the kindergarten ...

Kindergarten Readiness Assessments involve two tests: one at the beginning of the school year to see if students are ready for kindergarten and one at the end. Mississippi schools seemed to be better ...

The results from this year's kindergarten readiness assessment (KRA), is a preview of how prepared pre-schools are to learn.A new state report shows more students enter kindergarten understanding the ...

COOS BAY — Coos Bay kindergartners started school on Monday, but introductions, classroom visits and the Kindergarten Assessment took place last week. The state-mandated assessment launched last year, ...

Eager to watch a foundational skills lesson, we enter a kindergarten classroom in a large urban school district in ...

Delila Ortiz Ponce, a kindergartner at Gilbert Park Elementary in the David Douglas school district, answered kindergarten readiness questions for her teacher, Jessika Evers, when taking the new state ...

A rigorous new kindergarten curriculum and assessment program in Montgomery County public schools has produced data showing significant gains in reading skills among the district's 9,000 ...

(Reuters Health) - Boys whose teachers find them antisocial in kindergarten may have lower income as adults than their classmates who don't have behavior problems, a Canadian study suggests.