Pennsylvania is using a new kindergarten-entrance assessment this fall, and a review of the way it’s handling the project points to key challenges states face as they use tests to gauge what students ...

The University of Virginia recently released a study showing that one-third of children who start kindergarten in that state aren’t well prepared for it. Today, the Oregon Department of Education ...

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 ...

BOSTON (AP) - Massachusetts education officials are developing plans to test students as soon as they enter kindergarten to determine how prepared they are to start school. Massachusetts Education ...

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; ...

A Senate committee advanced a bill Tuesday that would standardize kindergarten cutoff dates – with an amendment that would ...

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 ...

Rosedale Elementary kindergartner Brooklynn Corey listens as her teacher tells her to name as many letters as possible on a sheet of paper. (Wendy Owen/Beaverton Leader) Before Rosedale Elementary ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Ohio student performance on two statewide assessments has dropped in fall 2020, and fewer students took the tests, according to state data. State assessments, canceled for the ...

Lolo DeLeon, shown on his very first day of kindergarten, answered his teacher's questions about letters and letter sounds. He did well and was quick to answer from whom he had learned so much: "My ...

The Mississippi Department of Education has released the results of the kindergarten and pre-K assessments and the news is once again mostly good for Coast schools. The assessments are given twice a ...

The format of kindergarten assessment varies widely. The Iowa Test of Basic Skills, which is used by schools across the United States, runs more than an hour as a teacher reads dozens of questions ...