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 ...

Education researchers say happier teachers are more likely to stay and that stability can be good for long-term learning ...

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 ...

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There’s a dizzying array of childhood programs, schools and child-care options — all with slightly different names and definitions — which can be confusing to parents trying to make decisions about ...

Caught off guard by an infusion of universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) funding in the 2021-22 state budget, local school districts are scrambling to find suitable locations to house classrooms for 4-year ...

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 ...

A local school is providing an alternative to traditional preschool programs. The Forest Kindergarten Movement began in the 1950s in Scandinavia. It didn’t reach the U.S. until 2007. Athens Forest ...