When Krystyna Kalishevskyi emigrated from Ukraine with her family last year, she had experienced more trauma and fear than a 4-year-old can cope with. Going to school in California was a big challenge ...

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Seven months into the school year at Linwood Holton Elementary, in Richmond, Virginia, Jenna Conway’s daughter takes a more relaxed approach to virtual kindergarten. Credit: Jenna Conway The Hechinger ...

Almost 20 years ago a San Diego nonprofit created a preschool to focus on the “little guys” — children who experience ...

When Sunny Lee’s son was ready for kindergarten in 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic had just begun. His school in Pleasanton, an eastern suburb of the San Francisco Bay, was holding classes online, like ...

Educational support for infants, toddlers and preschoolers with visual impairments requires highly individualized learning ...

Determining whether your child is the right age for kindergarten can be difficult. While most five-year-olds are ready to take the step to full-time classroom learning, some are not — and that’s OK.

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Erika Christakis (yep, the same woman at the center of the Yale ...

Kindergarten has taken some getting used to for Walker Sheppard, who didn’t attend preschool or day care. Besides all the new rules to remember, there’s a new nightly routine: homework. “We spend ...