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

Each week, at 15 elementary schools across Marion County, an assortment of kindergarten students excitedly await the arrival of their Reading Pals. The United Way of Marion County Reading Pals ...

Getting your child ready for kindergarten can be as easy as carving out 15 minutes a day. There's a new free Pre-K program that lets parents and kids work side-by-side on activities that prepare kids ...

Vanessa Silver, who tutors young children with dyslexia, works with Liina Yerro, 9, in Granada Hills. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times) This year, for the first time, California schools will be ...

But a closer look at that population shows that children from disadvantaged households aren’t picking up higher-level skills as quickly as their peers from more advantaged families. “We see a very ...

A Norwegian study of kindergarten children reveals that girls are more interested in language activities than boys. As a result boys may receive less linguistic stimulation and become less prepared ...

As a kindergarten teacher, Derrick Criner knows that progress is a process and trying new things may lead to enriching experiences. Initially, the 2013 Glacier High School grad thought he would go ...

Giuliana Tapia was way behind her classmates. She was just 5 years old, starting kindergarten at Telesis Academy of Science and Math in West Covina. At a kindergarten screening two months before her ...

Children who attend preschool do better in kindergarten than those who stay at home with their parents or relatives, according to a national report. The federal data, which focused on children who ...