from teacher shortages to mask rules, than the usual concerns. On top of all that, there are many more children who will be going to transitional kindergarten, or TK, this year because of the expanded ...

Parents can teach reading and other fundamental skills at home. Kindergarten is often a ... other children "where they can make up their own rules, figure out their own ways of getting along ...

Transitional kindergarten for all 4-year-olds has been touted as a way ... but districts could enroll younger children if they had room and met stricter rules: a 1:10 adult-child ratio and a maximum ...

New Jersey’s youngest students should expect new tools in their classrooms this fall, as schools implement new laws to reboot ...

Universal TK provides a free, high-quality preschool option for all California families with 4-year-olds. This is critical in terms of access and affordability and ensures that more families can ...

said she tells parents kindergarten isn’t what they experienced as kids. “You're expected to start reading chapter books by the end [of first grade]. How are you going to do that if you don't ...

Backers say the proposal merits attention amid Louisiana's bleak literacy landscape, with less than half of students in kindergarten through third grade reading ... proposed new rules also expand ...

Once the board adopts a formal set of rules, local public ... in effect, a pre-kindergarten offering tailored specifically at improving language and reading proficiency. Districts will be able ...

reading, writing and playing, with a secondary emphasis on pre-math and social emotional skills. "We noticed just social interactions not being there,” said former kindergarten teacher and ...