Some teachers are making the switch from private preschools to transitional kindergarten. Others come from upper grades. Many ...

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 ...

California is in the middle of an ambitious plan to offer transitional kindergarten to all 4-year-olds by the 2025–26 school year in what’s poised to be the largest free preschool program in the ...

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Consider the humble lump of pink Play-Doh. To a parent, it’s a quick toddler playtime activity. But ask an early childhood educator about Play-Doh, and it’s a science experiment, an opportunity for ...

ALTURAS, Calif. — The new kindergarten teacher resigned via email on a Sunday night in February. It didn’t matter that 18 children would show up in her classroom the next morning. She said she was ...

A landmark national study found that children attending public Montessori preschools outperformed their peers in reading, ...