Through the eyes of a child, summer always passes by too quickly. It seems as if the end of one school year and the beginning ...

A shortage of publicly funded preschool spots means that not every eligible California child will attend a state preschool or Head Start program before enrolling in kindergarten. And the high cost of ...

A review of the research on “redshirting” young children whose summer birthdays fall close to the start of kindergarten suggests delaying them a year does not pay off academically in the long run.

Among parents of the 2010 kindergarten class, 6.2 percent delayed their child’s school start by a year. Breaking it down by gender, 7.2 percent of parents of boys redshirted, compared to 5.2 ...

Kindergarten is no joke. That's especially true in the world of exclusive Los Angeles private schools that can cost from $20,000 to upward of $30,000 before added costs like new student fees ...

Summer pre-K may cut down on first-day jitters and time spent rehearsing classroom procedures, said W. Steven Barnett, the senior co-director of the National Institute for Early Education Research ...