A bill drawing bipartisan support in the Iowa Legislature would make learning through play a core educational strategy in early childhood classrooms ...

I have a secret to share. I keep my nine-year-old son home from school every Monday to play outside and take karate. Marty’s wonderful teacher supports his weekly mental health day. I need one too.

For many years, kindergarteners at Osborne Elementary School performed the “Days of the Dinosaurs” play. It was revamped with new songs in 2008, and has been a long-standing tradition – with the ...

The days when kindergarten focused on playing and finger painting may be waning, according to a new University of Virginia study, as early-learning classrooms devote significantly more attention to ...

After years of gradual expansion, California is making transitional kindergarten available for all 4-year-olds this fall. An additional grade before kindergarten, transitional kindergarten is meant to ...

As a result of a new state law, California schools instituted transitional kindergarten to give 4-year-olds who were previously eligible for kindergarten an extra year to adjust to school and ...

It was a willful kindergarten pupil who gave Steve Oates a crash course in how to lead a school. “A kindergartner came into my office, and he wouldn’t sit down, so I said, ‘You will sit down,’ ” ...

I have a secret to share. I keep my nine-year-old son home from school every Monday to play outside and take karate. Marty’s wonderful teacher supports his weekly mental health day. I need one too.