Is the Intelligence on Iran’s Capabilities Credible? Audio By Carbonatix The evidence shows that government-funded, large-scale early-education programs fail to deliver long-term educational benefits.

For better or worse, kindergarten has replaced the cookies, milk and naptime of old with reading lessons and numbers worksheets. It’s hard enough for a 5-year-old to negotiate; teachers complain that ...

Proposed legislation that would require all incoming kindergartners be 5 years old by Sept. 1 cleared the state Senate on Wednesday and is now headed to the Assembly for consideration. The ...

Kindergarten teacher Robin Gieman calls them “rollers” — children who lie on the carpet and roll around when they should be listening to a lesson. They’re not misbehaving. They’re just not quite ready ...

Parent of an early-entrance child: We live in a town where many parents, school board members, and teachers hold their kids back a grade in school so they can excel in sports. When such a choice ...

A proposed law in California would require children to be 5-years-old when they start kindergarten. Now, any child who turns 5 before Dec. 2 can begin kindergarten. But under the proposed measure, a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Denver Public School officials see a promising future for the district as enrollment continues to climb for preschool and kindergarten classes. Families of ...

-- Residents Greg and Barbara Quast had trouble finding a preschool for their youngest child when they moved here 12 years ago. “All we really found were either day cares, or local preschools which ...