This article was originally published in The Hechinger Report. ASTON, Pa.— In Jodie Murphy’s kindergarten class, math lessons go beyond the basics of counting and recognizing numbers. On a recent ...

GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. — To Kayden, he’s just enjoying a trip down a slide at LeBauer Park in Greensboro. But every time out with his mom is a learning journey. “Different colors, numbers, everything,” ...

In Jodie Murphy’s kindergarten class in Aston, Pennsylvania, math lessons go beyond the basics of counting and recognizing numbers. On a recent morning, the children used plastic red and yellow dots ...

Q. What do kids really need to know before kindergarten? Knowing their alphabet seems a little too simple. What do they really need to know so that they are not labeled “behind”? For that matter, ...

Filling a child’s new backpack with a box of crayons and school supplies is part of the bittersweet ritual of preparing a kindergartener for the first day of school. What parents may not realize is ...

Parents visiting their children’s kindergarten class for the first time may think they’ve arrived at the wrong room, especially if they expect it to resemble the kindergarten they attended as ...

It’s that time of year when kindergartners proudly march across the stage to receive a certification of completion, enjoy the summer, and look ahead to 1st grade. This transition once represented a ...