Kindergarten “redshirting”—when a parent decides to delay the start of their child’s academic career by a year—was once largely a choice made by higher-income parents of white boys. But the COVID-19 ...

Seven months into the school year at Linwood Holton Elementary, in Richmond, Virginia, Jenna Conway’s daughter takes a more relaxed approach to virtual kindergarten. Credit: Jenna Conway The Hechinger ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Sixty-five percent of kindergarten-age children in Franklin County do not have a basic grasp of letters and numbers, prompting Ohio to say they’re not ready for kindergarten.

About a year ago, a friend of my wife’s was touring the kindergarten classroom at her local school, in a middle-class, racially mixed New York neighborhood. She noticed the lack of blocks, craft ...

From cutting and counting fruit to fun treasure hunts, CHALK Preschool's April Schafer shares her best tips to promote education at home As director of CHALK Preschool, April Schafer knows a thing or ...

The president's executive order would push AI education in K–12 schools; the idea gets support from education experts, but raises concerns about how early students should learn about the technology.

This is a golden age of choice for preschool TV that helps kids from social-emotional learning to STEM subjects These shows, like Sesame Street, are blurring the line between entertainment and ...

An instructional program for parents helps young children retain the literacy skills and positive learning behaviors acquired in Head Start through to the end of the kindergarten year, according to ...