One of the first times New Orleans kindergarten teacher Molly Mansel gave her class a computer-based standardized test last fall, the 30 5-year-olds didn’t know how to take it. The children, raised in ...

Goodbye Play-Doh, hello No. 2 pencils. Because of a tough new curriculum and teacher evaluations, 4- and 5-year-olds are learning how to fill in bubbles on standardized math tests to show how much ...

With school in full swing across the United States, the littlest students are getting used to the blocks table and the dress-up corner — and that staple of American public education, the standardized ...

A simple five-minute behavioral test for children entering kindergarten can predict significant gains in mathematics skills over the course of the year, researchers have found. Claire Cameron Ponitz, ...

WEBVTT MARYLAND HAS COME UP WITH A NEW TEST WHICH NEARLY 67,000 KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS WILL TAKE. IT IS CALLED READY FOR KINDERGARTEN. IT IS NOT THE TEST CAUSING CONCERN FOR SOME TEACHERS. IT IS THE ...

EVERETT — On a quiet Valentine’s Day morning, a class of 4- and 5-year-olds at Jefferson Elementary took a seat on the classroom rug, each on a square that matches the color of their assigned desks.

A national push to make public schools more rigorous and hold teachers more accountable has led to a vast expansion of testing in kindergarten. And more exams are on the way, including a test meant to ...