A nationwide study found students who attended a preschool Montessori program have better short-term memories and reading outcomes by the end of kindergarten than their peers.

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

Students at R. Brown McAllister Elementary School use exercises in phonemic awareness—the ability to recognize and manipulate the sounds in English—during literary instruction on March 19, 2025, in ...

In most states, schools are required to screen students as they enter kindergarten—a process that is meant to identify ...

Volunteers with the LiTEArary society read to children who live in "book deserts" and bring them their own books.

Gov. Gavin Newsom laid out the argument for expanding TK in last year’s budget: “Evidence is plentiful that children who attend preschool are better prepared to succeed in school than children who do ...

As the school year started, like so many people, it felt like my brain operated in a split screen — one in the present day and the other in March 2020. When the COVID-19 shutdown occurred, my daughter ...

PHOENIX — Children typically learn to read between kindergarten and third grade, but Arizona kids are falling behind when it comes to literacy. Under 40 percent of Arizona third graders are reading at ...