Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was all fun and games (and finger painting and singing and dancing) in preschool, but kindergarten is a different ball game.

Conversation around holding a child back in kindergarten is everywhere — but the rate of children actually getting a delayed ...

California’s newly expanded transitional kindergarten program is growing, but it’s also sapping resources from other early childhood programs, a new study shows, leading to declining enrollment. “As ...

Before transitional kindergarten, or TK, was widened to accept all 4-year-olds, many early education experts suggested that shift might undermine preschool programs, stealing away both students and ...

SACRAMENTO (KPIX) -- Thanks to an expansion of transitional kindergarten by Governor Gavin Newsom and state legislators, all four-year-olds California will be able to enroll in publicly-funded school ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students play with bubbles at Educare Los Angeles at Long Beach, a preschool serving children age 5 and under through a ...

The Peninsula School District launched the first session of its Transitional Kindergarten program in January. This program brings an opportunity for children to get a head start on learning before ...

Despite warnings from early childhood experts against too much screen time, schools' reliance on educational technology for ...

Matthew Escorcia arranged a swarm of candy-colored toy bugs in a line on the tiny desk in front of him. "One, two, three," the 4-year-old transitional kindergartner counted steadily through the row of ...

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It was all fun and games (and finger painting and singing and dancing) in preschool, but kindergarten is a different ball game. Knowing whether or not your kid is ready for the structure and ...