kindergarten classes have become startlingly like first grade. "We were fairly floored by how consistent the results were across everything in the data," says Daphna Bassok, study co-author and ...

Despite the absence of updated analysis of federal data on kindergarten expectations, teachers say that standards have ...

How? It used to be that kids were given time to academically grow at their own speed without being declared failures by first and certainly second grade if they couldn’t read. Kids ...

Above: The chart shows class time devoted to different subject areas by teachers of kindergarten and 1st grade students from 1998 to 2006. Source: The Center on Education Policy and Workforce ...