Millions of children will grab lunchboxes, backpacks and rolling bags and head to their first day of kindergarten this year. Some will go for a half day and some for a full. Some will attend private ...

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 ...

When Erin Cook began teaching her kindergarten students sign language, it was primarily to assist learning the alphabet. But then she saw the benefits, and it snowballed into something more. Now, her ...

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, ...

While there's growing interest in assessing school readiness, education experts differ on what to measure and how. Here's ...