Maryland has come up with a new test for its nearly 67,000 kindergarten students called Ready for Kindergarten, or R4K.Mobile users tap here for videoIt's not the test that's causing concern among ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the key people who advocated to create the state’s free voluntary prekindergarten system has deep questions about how the state could be calculating kindergarten readiness. David Lawrence Jr.

One of the first times New Orleans kindergarten teacher Molly Mansel gave her class a computer-based standardized test last fall, the 30 5-year-olds didn’t know how to take it. The children, raised in ...

After a brief hearing Jan. 26, Wilmette Elementary District 39 school board authorized administrators to seek a waiver from freeing the district from using a kindergarten competency test officials say ...

MIDDLETOWN — Most Middletown children entering kindergarten need extra help in some areas of literacy, according to recently released state test scores. On average, most Middletown children score ...

For 20 kindergartners at Parr’s Ridge Elementary School, the morning is packed with singing and dancing, playing an alphabet game with sticks, and cutting big oval shapes out of paper. And while these ...

Following a public outcry from parents and teachers, the Los Angeles Unified School District has decided to make timed reading tests optional for most transitional kindergarten students. Find expert ...

Kindergarten teacher Michelle Davis gives a fist bump to Angelique Luciano, 6, after administering a quick literacy diagnostic test to her at F.P. Caillet Elementary in Dallas on Wednesday, May 5, ...

WEBVTT MARYLAND HAS COME UP WITH A NEW TEST WHICH NEARLY 67,000 KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS WILL TAKE. IT IS CALLED READY FOR KINDERGARTEN. IT IS NOT THE TEST CAUSING CONCERN FOR SOME TEACHERS. IT IS THE ...