As participation in publicly-funded preschool programs steadily grows and pressure ramps up on states to prove that those programs are preparing low-income children for kindergarten, measuring ...

As federal pressure for accountability standards moves into the preschool arena, it is important for states to rapidly develop processes that align preschool standards with K-12 standards and evaluate ...

The results from this year's kindergarten readiness assessment (KRA), is a preview of how prepared pre-schools are to learn.A new state report shows more students enter kindergarten understanding the ...

Useful new report from NAEYC outlines key considerations in implementing Kindergarten entry and other large scale assessments for young children. It’s a very thorough and informative piece and is, ...

The predictive significance of early childhood behaviors may have been underestimated by up to 50 per cent due to inadequate assessment procedures, a new study suggests. The predictive significance of ...

STAMFORD — Parents who remember a trip to the pediatrician as the only required pre-kindergarten evaluation may be surprised to hear that today their kids are assessed on everything from literacy to ...

This month in her transitional kindergarten class at L.A. Unified, student Maria Arriaga will be timed to see how many uppercase and lowercase letters she can name in a minute. She’ll be tested to see ...

This week, I interviewed Bonnie Baruch, Director of the Moorpark College Child Development Center (CDC) in California and visited her Child Care Center. It is a showplace, using media in student ...