A simple handshake can mean so much more. It's a greeting many adults take for granted: a simple handshake. But for one Texas kindergarten class, and one kindergartner in particular, a simple ...
As schools start back into session around the country, some parents of young children face a difficult question: Send their little ones to kindergarten as soon as they become age-eligible, or hold ...
How can parents really prepare their kids for kindergarten? Take advice from a teacher who says parents need to do one important thing: “Tell your kid no.” “‘No’ is not a bad word,” Emily Perkins, a ...
Louisiana school enrollment is down more than 2%, much of that from pre-K and kindergarten students "redshirting" during the pandemic, and some worry this will put kids even further behind come fall.
When Sunny Lee’s son was ready for kindergarten in 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic had just begun. His school in Pleasanton, an eastern suburb of the San Francisco Bay, was holding classes online, like ...
To enter your kid in kindergarten or not to enter them? That is the question numerous parents face every fall if their kid’s birthday falls near the kindergarten cutoff date. It can seem like a huge ...
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(CBS News) Kindergarten "redshirting" is on the rise. That's the practice of parents holding their children back from kindergarten so they can start school at age 6 -- older, bigger, and more mature ...
In the District of Columbia, children are required to attend kindergarten. Nineteen states mandate it as well, but the one with the most school-age children does no t and won’t anytime soon. On Sunday ...
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The following year, in 2021, when school was back in person, Lee’s son started first grade and her daughter started kindergarten. But after two weeks of school with COVID restrictions, she pulled both ...