Teachers at Orlando Day Nursery in Florida have always evaluated how well their 4-year-old prekindergartners—most of them poor and African-American—could recognize letters, isolate sounds in words, ...

For decades, Florida faced criticism for judging the quality of its pre-K program on a “readiness” test given to young students after they started kindergarten. It was a system, critics argued, that ...

When it comes to children’s education, state and Clark County education leaders are doubling down on their efforts to improve ...

Youngsters in Florida’s pre-kindergarten program this month will take a new test of early literacy, language and math skills, sitting one-on-one with their teachers to answer questions and point to ...

Assessments may change in many ways, but for most students, the stress of having to prove what they know and can do doesn’t go away. That’s why an increasing number of districts nationwide are looking ...

A majority of Mississippi kindergartners are ready for first grade after making significant progress during the year, annual test results show, and the percentage of those who are not ready has ...

Our family's first parent-teacher conferences were last week, right before our first Tulsa Public Schools' Fall Break. In addition to discussing our 4-year-old daughter's pre-K classroom activities, ...

President Joe Biden has made sweeping claims about evidence that he says supports his universal pre-kindergarten plan. There is plenty of research on specific targeted programs, but there isn’t much ...

Universal prekindergarten may well be the Biden administration’s most cherished education policy proposal. It was a staple of Biden’s 2020 platform and continues to be a key component of his Build ...

My 4-year-old Tulsa Public Schools pre-K student daughter has now been in school about a month. She's had her first school fundraiser packet sent home (cookie dough), her first school book order form ...

Mr. Kirp is a professor at the graduate school of the University of California, Berkeley, and the author, most recently, of “The College Dropout Scandal.” The Build Back Better plan, President Biden’s ...