When Krystyna Kalishevskyi emigrated from Ukraine with her family last year, she had experienced more trauma and fear than a 4-year-old can cope with. Going to school in California was a big challenge ...

Many California parents are opting out of kindergarten this year, due to concerns about whether distance learning or attending school for the first time with strangers in masks will be good for ...

One November morning, a little after 8 a.m., Jessica Arrow and 14 of her kindergarteners are sitting in a circle on a rug in her classroom at Symonds Elementary School here. Some sit cross-legged, ...

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Ready or not, across the country, a new crop of kindergarteners has entered the K-12 school system. Their teachers will spend these early weeks determining where the 5- and 6-year-olds are ...

Ontario made a bold public policy move in September 2010 when full-day learning was made available to all four- and five-year-old children in the province – via a unique two-year, full-day ...

That joyfulness can extend even to the more mundane lessons, like learning new vocabulary, which historically has involved ...

Teacher Emily Dirks looked out onto a sea of young faces attached to squiggly, squirming mostly 5-year-old bodies. “Ran-Dan,” she said. “Does that rhyme? Thumbs up or down?” “No!” said the group of ...

With her five-year-old son Camden starting kindergarten in September, primary school teacher Cheryl McFarlane has more than just a professional interest in the changes the Ministry of Education has ...

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