SPOKANE, Wash. – Teachers at Madison Elementary School are offering valuable insights for parents as they prepare their children for the transition to kindergarten. One key challenge for young ...

Ready or not, across the country, a new crop of kindergarteners has entered the K-12 school system. Their teachers will spend these early weeks determining where the 5- and 6-year-olds are ...

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 ...

As the expectations for kindergarten have risen, the changes have put boys, who tend to mature later, at a disadvantage. By Claire Cain Miller Claire Cain Miller is working on a series of articles ...