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 ...

In one Hemlock Elementary School kindergarten classroom Thursday morning, it was business as usual. Students modeled letters of the alphabet using Play-Doh, learned about the months of the year and ...

When Krystyna Kalishevskyi emigrated from Ukraine with her family last year, she had experienced more trauma and fear than a 4-year-old can cope with. Going to school in California was a big challenge ...

A kindergarten teacher has gone viral on social media after sharing how she uses a singalong to help her students learn all about money. Quatashia Witherspoon, 26, often gets creative when teaching ...

EVERETT — On a quiet Valentine’s Day morning, a class of 4- and 5-year-olds at Jefferson Elementary took a seat on the classroom rug, each on a square that matches the color of their assigned desks.

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 ...

HOCKINSON — In groups of four, Shawn Spears ushered his young students to choose their adventure in the classroom Tuesday afternoon. Drawing, playing with dinosaurs, practicing cutting shapes — it ...

Lansing — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Wednesday it's not appropriate for kindergarten classes to have 30 students in them after a Detroit News investigation documented class sizes across Michigan that ...

As the Supreme Court debates this case, I am reminded of the students I taught over two decades ago who gave me an invaluable lesson about what representation really means to them. Ad Policy While ...

Mary Elizabeth Picher works as a consultant to Storypark. University of Toronto provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Toronto provides funding as a member of The ...

Many California parents are opting out of kindergarten this year, due to concerns about whether distance learning or attending school for the first time with strangers in masks will be good for ...

Faced with remote learning or socially distanced classroom options, some parents of rising kindergartners are considering holding their kids back. By Emily Sohn Alka Tripathy-Lang’s 5-year-old son is ...