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Kindergarten Math is Often Too Basic. Here’s Why That’s a Problem

This article was originally published in The Hechinger Report. ASTON, Pa.— In Jodie Murphy’s kindergarten class, math lessons go beyond the basics of counting and recognizing numbers. On a recent ...
Detroit News

Gov. Whitmer: Not appropriate to have 30 kids in a kindergarten class

Lansing — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Wednesday it's not appropriate for kindergarten classes to have 30 students in them after a Detroit News investigation documented class sizes across Michigan that ...
The Press Democrat

Napa’s youngest students learn cognitive, motor, social skills through music

Since 2023, the Napa Valley Unified School District has contracted with Benicia-based In Harmony Music to provide music ...
EdSource

Transitional kindergarten can’t expand without the right kind of classrooms

This is the fourth in a series of stories on the challenges impacting California’s efforts to offer high-quality instruction to all 4-year-olds by 2025. Transitional kindergarten for all 4-year-olds ...
Daily Reporter

Full day, full education: Members of original all-day kindergarten class now becoming doctors, lawyers, architects

NEW PALESTINE – Members of Hancock County’s first all-day kindergarten class are now graduating with collegiate and doctorate degrees. It’s been 20 since the first full-day kindergarten program was ...
LAist

California schools now offer free preschool for 4-year-olds. Here's what kids really learn in it

Every 4-year-old in California can now go to school for free in their local districts. The new grade is called transitional kindergarten — or TK — and it's part of the state’s effort to expand ...
KETV Omaha

Kindergarten students at Nelson Mandela Elementary School become published authors

KINDERGARTEN CLASS HAS DONE SOMETHING MOST PEOPLE NEVER DO. STUDENTS AT NELSON MANDELA ELEMENTARY WROTE A BOOK, AND WITH THE HELP OF THEIR TEACHER, THESE KIDS ARE NOW PUBLISHED AUTHORS KETV NEWSWATCH ...
KQED

California Teacher Shortage Hinders Transitional Kindergarten and Bilingual Education Goals

California is in the middle of an ambitious plan to offer transitional kindergarten to all 4-year-olds by the 2025–26 school year in what’s poised to be the largest free preschool program in the ...
The Nation

My Kindergarten Class Taught Me What’s Really at Stake in “Mahmoud v. Taylor”

As the Supreme Court debates this case, I am reminded of the students I taught over two decades ago who gave me an invaluable lesson about what representation really means to them. Ad Policy While ...

U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.

Schools, buffeted by post-pandemic politics, have become less strict in enforcing vaccination mandates, The Post found. Some ...
The Hechinger Report

Kindergarten math is often too basic. Here’s why that’s a problem

Two students in Danielle Adler’s kindergarten class at Marcus Hook Elementary School in Marcus Hook, Pa., prepare for an addition problem. Credit: Holly Korbey for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...