New federal data shows about two-thirds of the nation’s 3- to 5-year-olds are on track to enter kindergarten. The effort to ...

Determining whether your child is the right age for kindergarten can be difficult. While most five-year-olds are ready to take the step to full-time classroom learning, some are not — and that’s OK.

While there's growing interest in assessing school readiness, education experts differ on what to measure and how. Here's ...

Administered by the U.S. Census Bureau, the federal survey offers a glimpse into school readiness by collecting responses ...

About two-thirds of California’s children ages 3 to 5 are considered to be “on track,” per new data, but measures of ...

If your child has a summer birthday and has just recently turned five-years-old, you may find they still feel very young to you and wonder if they are truly ready for the big transition to ...

This year, every 4-year-old in California can enter transitional kindergarten at their local school district. But fewer parents know about TK, and that it can be an option for their family, than they ...

As registration season approaches, San Antonio early childhood provider says true readiness goes beyond ABCs—and ...

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