Preschool & Kindergarten

A year ago, Lexa and Jake Hawkins spent weeks making a tough decision.

Their son, Caleb, was 4 and would turn 5 in August. The...

Kristina Leeb-Lundberg, an early-childhood education professor, told a true story of five-year-old Mary who went to the park wit...

Middle-class children hear 33 million words by the time they start school – 23 million more than poorer children of the same age...

A few days ago, I asked a group of public school kindergarten teachers what they thought about homework. I wasn’t surprised when...

Stressed parents, squirming kids, expensive prepping for standardized tests — welcome to the world of applying to kindergarten.

Nearly 5,000 children qualified for gifted and talented kindergarten seats in New York City public schools in the fall, 22 perce...