This article about play-based kindergarten was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. EVERETT, Wash.

colors and shapes. Two of them could even read all 100 words — at, the, there, like — that kindergartners are expected to know by the end of the year. About half had been to preschool ...

Ms. Hirsh-Pasek and colleagues are currently piloting kindergarten-readiness tests designed to provide that deeper kind of information. Instead of simply asking children to identify shapes ...

TK serves as a bridge between preschool and kindergarten ... They will have stronger fine motor skills and can begin to draw shapes, write letters and use scissors. They will be able to follow ...

While the toddler is getting the hang of colors, numbers and shapes, she says ... which recently forced her son’s free Chicago preschool to close its campus. That preschool, an early ...

The study compared survey responses from thousands of kindergarten teachers in 1998, before No Child Left Behind was enacted, and 2010, just as Common Core standards were taking shape. It found ...

Little People's Cove introduces LED light tables for preschool and kindergarten children that enhance sensory play, support ...

What I find telling is that, while kindergarten teachers became more and more likely to consider academic skills like knowing the alphabet, colors, and shapes vital for students to learn in the ...