TK programs in California are designed to prepare 4-year-olds for elementary school by combining play-based learning with ...

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

Practical tips for helping families understand what their kids are learning amid the seeming chaos of a preschool classroom.

Kindergartners are struggling with self-control—a key indicator of kindergarten readiness. Is more unstructured play a ...

Steve Oates is leading the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County district to embrace more play-based learning in kindergarten, counter to a major trend of making early-childhood education more academic. He ...

In June, kindergarten teachers raised important questions about the balance between play-based learning and developing foundational literacy skills in kindergarten.

Kindergarten is no longer free-play and finger-painting. The focus is academics and the pressure is real. It’s time to consider a course correction: less pressure and more play.

Several weeks before the official start of the coming school year, 18 kindergartners-to-be wearing big-kid backpacks filed ...