One of the key people who advocated to create the state’s free voluntary prekindergarten system has deep questions about how the state could be calculating kindergarten readiness. David Lawrence Jr.

With school in full swing across the United States, the littlest students are getting used to the blocks table and the dress-up corner - and that staple of American public education, the standardized ...

If all goes according to plan, public school testing will drum out any vestiges of creativity by the start of first grade. Credit: Erin Althea It was the fourth week of school—day 21, to be exact—when ...

MIDDLETOWN — Most Middletown children entering kindergarten need extra help in some areas of literacy, according to recently released state test scores. On average, most Middletown children score ...

I also test the students three times a year using the Fountas and Pinnell reading scale, which I find the most valuable, although the district goal is for every student to be at a first grade level, ...

EVERETT — On a quiet Valentine’s Day morning, a class of 4- and 5-year-olds at Jefferson Elementary took a seat on the classroom rug, each on a square that matches the color of their assigned desks.

The percentage of Florida youngsters deemed ready for kindergarten plummeted last year, thanks to a new test that tripped up many 5-year-olds. About 54 percent of the students who started kindergarten ...