Students in Riverside High School’s SIDE leadership class got to revisit kindergarten classrooms as leaders on Sept. 17 as part of the monthly Sidekicks program. Now in its third year, the program ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eager to watch a foundational skills lesson, we enter a kindergarten classroom in a large urban school district in mid-November.

“The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind–creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers. These people–artists, inventors, designers, ...

A new study suggests that a colorful classroom, while fun, may be bad for students. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University recently found that kindergarteners who were taught in a highly ...

If a poem or storybook referenced adultery or killing in a kindergarten classroom, it would be removed immediately.

Kindergarten classrooms nationwide have changed dramatically since the late 1990s and nearly all of these changes are in the direction of a heightened focus on academics, particularly literacy, ...