Between 1998 and 2010, the percentage of kindergarten classrooms with a dramatic play area dropped from nearly 90 percent to 58 percent. While recent research shows kids can, for the most part, handle ...

This article about play-based kindergarten was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. EVERETT, Wash. — On ...

That’s how kindergarten should feel. Play is not a break from learning or a way to fill time for the little ones: play, imagination and discovery are how kindergartners learn.

More Testing, Less Play: Study Finds Higher Expectations For Kindergartners : NPR Ed As kindergarten becomes the new first grade, some worry that the joy of learning is being lost with higher rigor.

Jessica Arrow, a kindergarten teacher at Symonds Elementary School in Keene, N.H., leads her students back into their classroom from forest play time on Nov. 7, 2024. Boys crave strong ...

Kindergarten is no longer free-play and finger-painting. The focus is academics and the pressure is real. It’s time to consider a course correction: less pressure and more play.

ELWOOD, Long Island (PIX11) — College preparation and career readiness are concepts usually associated with students, but because one local elementary school wants to apply those concepts to its ...

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.

In 1998, they didn't even ask kindergarten teachers that question. But the first-grade teachers in 1998 reported giving far fewer tests than the kindergarten teachers did in 2010. Less music and art.