Teacher Emily Dirks looked out onto a sea of young faces attached to squiggly, squirming mostly 5-year-old bodies. “Ran-Dan,” she said. “Does that rhyme? Thumbs up or down?” “No!” said the group of ...

Yelena Hagooli has done everything possible to give her 4-year-old son the best start in life. She took him to the library every week, fed him the healthiest foods, left her job to care for him, and ...

Laila Minott is the executive director of A.C.E. Academy in Harrisburg, where Clay teaches. She started the charter school, ...

My son's path to kindergarten hasn't exactly been silky smooth. First, there was his preschool's kindergarten readiness test, which he refused to even take, telling his teacher that he "didn't know ...

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 ...

Students at this elementary school greet each other with a smile before starting their day Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE. He started at PEOPLE's Los Angeles ...

When a new California law began requiring kindergartners to be 5 by Sept. 1, lawmakers launched a full-year transitional kindergarten program for children who used to be eligible for that class – ...

At first, Paul Kunz didn’t worry when his son’s elementary school warned that his kindergarten class might be larger than expected. He assumed the problem – 21 kids in the room – would be fixed in the ...