Silas McLellan, a kindergartner in a play-based learning class, plays with toy blocks during Choice Time at Symonds ...

It’s that time of year when kindergartners proudly march across the stage to receive a certification of completion, enjoy the summer, and look ahead to 1st grade. This transition once represented a ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

California schools will begin screening kindergartners and first- and second- graders for dyslexia to combat the state's low ...

A 2023 California law requires all students in kindergarten, first and second grade to be screened for risk of reading ...

When we talk about improving student achievement, the focus often lands on what happens inside schools: test scores, ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom has approved Assembly Bill 1454, which provides elementary school teachers with training in ...

Reading aloud is a wonderful way to build a love of stories and language. But listening to books does not, on its own, teach most children how to read. Only about 5 percent of students will learn to ...

Learning to read isn't always easy for kids. Volunteers are needed for a Sacramento-area kindergarten reading program.

The first national randomized trial of public Montessori preschool students showed stronger long-term outcomes by ...

Jennifer Lilintahl said she knew her 5-year-old daughter wasn't ready to learn how to read with other kids her age in the kindergarten classes last school year at Lafayette Elementary School in the ...