Patti Ghezzi, a former AJC education reporter, works in university communications. She has a keen interest in education issues as this column on the changing nature of kindergarten demonstrates. By ...

California’s transitional kindergarten instruction should remain developmentally appropriate and prioritize play as a form of learning, the state emphasized in a proposed clarification of the ...

BROOKLINE (CBS) - School is back in session, yet a summer debate over the way kindergarten should be taught continues in Brookline. During a school committee meeting this past June, teachers voiced ...

Elgin Area School District U-46 will host a free screening of a documentary film exploring the advantages of play-based approaches to learning in kindergarten on Tuesday, Jan. 22. The 30-minute ...

Steve Oates, a veteran teacher of 1st-graders, has been leading an initiative to bring play back to kindergarten classrooms in North Carolina’s Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school district. The effort ...

WEBVTT NORTHWEST. WHEN DO TEMPERATURES FINALLY ONE BACK TO AT LEAST NORMAL? WE WILL LOOK AT THAT COMING UP. JEAN: TODAY, THE NEW HAMPSHIRE SENATE PASSED A BILL TO REQUIRE KINDERGARTEN TO BE PLAY-BASED ...

Kindergarten classrooms across the country have changed. Researchers of this 2016 paper concluded that “kindergarten today is characterized by a heightened focus on academic skills and a reduction in ...

School District U46 families now have the option of signing up their kindergartners in full-day, play-based kindergarten for the 2016-17 school year. School board members Monday approved the ...

The days when kindergarten focused on playing and finger painting may be waning, according to a new University of Virginia study, as early-learning classrooms devote significantly more attention to ...

I have a secret to share. I keep my nine-year-old son home from school every Monday to play outside and take karate. Marty’s wonderful teacher supports his weekly mental health day. I need one too.