A bill moving through the California Legislature would assess students as early as kindergarten on math. It's part of an ...

Kindergartners who started school scoring in the bottom 20% had only a 1 in 10 chance of reading proficiency by 3rd grade. Those odds worsened if students were still struggling in 1st grade—only 1 in ...

A bill moving through California’s legislature would require schools to test kindergarteners' math skills.

Proficiency by grade 3 is linked to long-term academic and life outcomes, making early identification of struggling students key.

California could begin testing students as early as kindergarten in math if a bill currently going through the state ...

Kindergarten teachers report spending much of their math instructional time teaching students basic counting skills and how to recognize geometric shapes -— skills the students have already mastered ...

Starting Kindergarten is a major milestone on a student's academic path, but not all students have an equal starting point. Those early differences can have critical implications for whether students ...

Here's how you can help your kindergartner master the basics of math outside of the classroom. Try to incorporate basic math concepts into everyday activities. Have your child count objects regularly ...

Two students in Danielle Adler’s kindergarten class at Marcus Hook Elementary School in Marcus Hook, Pa., prepare for an addition problem. Credit: Holly Korbey for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

Gender gaps in math achievement and teacher expectations that boys are stronger at math than girls start to form by kindergarten, according to a study released Thursday by the American Educational ...

If your child is too advanced for preschool but not quite ready for kindergarten – perhaps because of a fall birthday – transitional kindergarten may be a solution. Pioneered in California, where the ...