Teacher Emily Dirks looked out onto a sea of young faces attached to squiggly, squirming mostly 5-year-old bodies. “Ran-Dan,” she said. “Does that rhyme? Thumbs up or down?” “No!” said the group of ...

Yelena Hagooli has done everything possible to give her 4-year-old son the best start in life. She took him to the library every week, fed him the healthiest foods, left her job to care for him, and ...

Farrah Wood’s two children had very different kindergarten experiences in Folsom Cordova Unified School District based simply on how much time they spent in class. Her older daughter had a full-day ...

Unlike older students, kindergartners often start the school year as cute little blank slates to their teachers. In many cases, those teachers have no more to go on when assigning children to classes ...

As a result of a new state law, California schools instituted transitional kindergarten to give 4-year-olds who were previously eligible for kindergarten an extra year to adjust to school and ...

At first, Paul Kunz didn’t worry when his son’s elementary school warned that his kindergarten class might be larger than expected. He assumed the problem – 21 kids in the room – would be fixed in the ...

An Israeli kindergarten class was spared from a Hezbollah drone that blew up in their classroom when their teachers made a quick decision to take shelter after hearing faint sirens. Sarah Yasour, a ...

When a new California law began requiring kindergartners to be 5 by Sept. 1, lawmakers launched a full-year transitional kindergarten program for children who used to be eligible for that class – ...