Five-year-olds are ready to operate a remote-control toy, and this wall-crawling gecko was a recent hot holiday find. It can ...

These clever hacks will help your kids estimate the number of jelly beans in a jar, leaves on a tree, and more.

Preschool for All, Multnomah County’s initiative to provide universal preschool to every child who wants it by 2030, now sits on close to $610 million, marking another year in which the program has ...

At one time kindergarteners played to learn much of the school day. They explored. They learned to get along with other children and made friends. But in the past few decades, the pendulum has swung ...

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Parents visiting their children’s kindergarten class for the first time may think they’ve arrived at the wrong room, especially if they expect it to resemble the kindergarten they attended as ...

Morgan Barnaby / OPB Preschool For All supporters, clad in yellow and holding signs that read “Universal Preschool Now,” came out in droves to defend Multnomah County’s preschool program at a public ...

Last week, Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read released results of an Audits Division investigation that found four preschools squandered hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars meant to provide ...

Using information collected through previous reporting cycles, Kindergarten Information Management System (KIMS) pre­populates funding allocations for each service and only requires services to update ...

It’s that time of year when kindergartners proudly march across the stage to receive a certification of completion, enjoy the summer, and look ahead to 1st grade. This transition once represented a ...

As the expectations for kindergarten have risen, the changes have put boys, who tend to mature later, at a disadvantage. By Claire Cain Miller Claire Cain Miller is working on a series of articles ...