Consider the humble lump of pink Play-Doh. To a parent, it’s a quick toddler playtime activity. But ask an early childhood educator about Play-Doh, and it’s a science experiment, an opportunity for ...

Some teachers are making the switch from private preschools to transitional kindergarten. Others come from upper grades. Many ...

How can parents really prepare their kids for kindergarten? Take advice from a teacher who says parents need to do one important thing: “Tell your kid no.” “‘No’ is not a bad word,” Emily Perkins, a ...

Boys are falling behind in school, and a gender gap in education has significantly widened in the last generation. But one group is uniquely positioned to help put them on the right track in their ...

Photographs by Eric Ryan Anderson, Gabriella Angotti-Jones, Chase Castor, George Etheredge, JerSean Golatt, Gavin McIntyre, Alyssa Pointer, Whitten Sabbatini and Zack Wittman Boys are falling behind ...

Early-childhood advocates have been concerned for some time that the academic expectations of elementary school are filtering down to kindergarten. Now, there’s a bit of pressure from the other ...

Last month, I posted an article describing the stand that kindergarten teachers in Brookline, Massachusetts, took in protesting the policies imposed upon them from above—the excessive testing, dreary ...

It was five minutes past 9 a.m. on the 59th day of school, and Ms. Tai was running late. “Dad! The internet’s not connecting!” the Los Angeles Unified School District kindergarten teacher hollered ...