For some young children in Columbus, Ohio, reading assessments don’t start in the kindergarten classroom — they happen first in the doctor’s office.

Eager to watch a foundational skills lesson, we enter a kindergarten classroom in a large urban school district in ...

“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, ...

Everyone agrees that the workplace has changed and that the jobs of the future will demand designers, creators and collaborators not production line automatons. But has our education system adapted to ...

This is the fourth in a series of stories on the challenges impacting California’s efforts to offer high-quality instruction to all 4-year-olds by 2025. Transitional kindergarten for all 4-year-olds ...

It's 2018 and kids in kindergarten are learning letters, numbers, shapes, and how to survive school shootings. Since more than 20 school shootings have taken place in 2018 so far, educators are taking ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. CHICAGO—To ...

Students need clear boundaries, but they also need to feel that they belong during an activity and that their ideas shape their learning.