PENSACOLA, Fla. (WEAR) — A state-wide test to determine whether students are ready for kindergarten is under fire for it's ineffectiveness. According to Escambia County Superintendent Malcolm Thomas, ...

Has kindergarten become a new pressure point in public education? That’s the worry that’s cropping up more often as states embrace the use of assessments to gauge what children know as they enter the ...

COOS BAY — Coos Bay kindergartners started school on Monday, but introductions, classroom visits and the Kindergarten Assessment took place last week. The state-mandated assessment launched last year, ...

As Ohio's kindergartners head to school this month, it is likely they will be assessed almost immediately. Fortunately for the students, they are likely to be largely unaware any testing is occurring.

David Douglas officials and supporters joined Earl Boyles Elementary School students in December at a groundbreaking ceremony for the school's early learning wing and neighborhood center. (David ...

With school in full swing across the United States, the littlest students are getting used to the blocks table and the dress-up corner - and that staple of American public education, the standardized ...

With school in full swing across the United States, the littlest students are getting used to the blocks table and the dress-up corner — and that staple of American public education, the standardized ...

Q: I am trying to obtain information regarding what my daughter will need to know for the kindergarten assessment this fall. When I asked her current preschool teacher, the answer was, "Don’t worry; ...

Last month, when New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed that all public school kindergartners sit for “entry assessments” starting in the 2014-15 school year, the education blogosphere erupted. Historian ...