Nearly 80 years before schools were forced to close due to COVID, Australian parents looked to the ABC to help educate, socialise and entertain their children when they had to keep their little ones ...

When Erin Cook began teaching her kindergarten students sign language, it was primarily to assist learning the alphabet. But then she saw the benefits, and it snowballed into something more. Now, her ...

Q. What do kids really need to know before kindergarten? Knowing their alphabet seems a little too simple. What do they really need to know so that they are not labeled “behind”? For that matter, ...

Filling a child’s new backpack with a box of crayons and school supplies is part of the bittersweet ritual of preparing a kindergartener for the first day of school. What parents may not realize is ...

Cross-posted from Inside School Research: Kindergarten might be the new 1st grade but it is still too easy. A forthcoming study in the peer-refereed American Educational Research Journal finds that ...