A bill moving through the California Legislature would assess students as early as kindergarten on math. It's part of an ...

A bill moving through California’s legislature would require schools to test kindergarteners' math skills.

California could begin testing students as early as kindergarten in math if a bill currently going through the state ...

Kindergartners who started school scoring in the bottom 20% had only a 1 in 10 chance of reading proficiency by 3rd grade.

Proficiency by grade 3 is linked to long-term academic and life outcomes, making early identification of struggling students key.

Those early differences can have critical implications for whether students ultimately reach proficiency by third grade — a critical academic benchmark closely tied to long-term educational success.

The vast majority of students won’t take algebra until middle or high school. But teachers can start laying the groundwork for this pivotal class a lot sooner, some researchers say—and instilling ...

Kindergarten is often assumed to be the starting point for math learning: alongside ABCs, children begin learning their 123s. But based on 30 years of studying how young children develop math ...

Students in Melissa Williams' kindergarten class at the Westminster School in Atlanta, Georgia, practice connecting quantities to written numbers — a key part of number sense. Credit: Holly Korbey for ...