Maryland has come up with a new test for its nearly 67,000 kindergarten students called Ready for Kindergarten, or R4K.Mobile users tap here for videoIt's not the test that's causing concern among ...

Kindergarten teachers report spending much of their math instructional time teaching students basic counting skills and how to recognize geometric shapes -— skills the students have already mastered ...

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 ...

Delila Ortiz Ponce, a kindergartner at Gilbert Park Elementary in the David Douglas school district, answered kindergarten readiness questions for her teacher, Jessika Evers, when taking the new state ...