To the mountain of research on one of the most effective interventions that prepares children to succeed in school, we can now add one more: new findings that transitional kindergarten gives English ...

English learners who attended transitional kindergarten were better prepared in math, foundational reading skills and language skills when they entered kindergarten than English learners who did not, ...

In kindergarten, children discover that sounds and letters can be combined to make words, words can be put together to make sentences and that sentences can be written down for us to read. Students ...

Learning disparities based on race show up in kindergarten and persist, according to assessment data released Thursday by Oregon education officials. Four years ago, kindergarteners began taking tests ...

Perhaps the single most important thing you can do at this stage to foster your child’s reading and writing skills is to read to him every single day. An Organisation for Economic Co-operation and ...

Chicago Public Schools students who aren’t proficient in English when they enter kindergarten tend to have better attendance and in some cases higher test scores than their peers who are native ...

As more and more evidence piles up about the importance of kids getting a head start to their education before kindergarten, the spotlight is on what preschool programs can offer students. Joyce Dual ...

Four-year-old children with parents who speak little to no English reap important benefits by participating in one year of center-based care—such as Head Start or state preschool—before starting ...

Maggie Severns is a policy analyst for the New America Foundation’s Early Education Initiative and the author of “Starting Early With English Language Learners: First Lessons From Illinois.” Maggie ...

Municipal education leaders say the 57.4% of Ho Chi Minh City kindergartners studying English is too low a figure, and local authorities aim to up the number. According to the preschool unit under the ...