ELDERSBURG — Students stood along the edges of an oval rug in Cindy Stone’s kindergarten classroom at Eldersburg Elementary School Tuesday afternoon. “I know we just learned this, but what was the ...

Petal School District Assistant Superintendent Dede Smith is happy with how the district's kindergartners scored on the state's fall kindergarten readiness assessment — the primary purpose of which is ...

A federal grant program in the works to help states jump-start kindergarten-entry assessments is renewing debate among early-childhood educators about the benefits and pitfalls of evaluating young ...