Pennsylvania is using a new kindergarten-entrance assessment this fall, and a review of the way it’s handling the project points to key challenges states face as they use tests to gauge what ...

A federal grant program in the works to help states jump-start kindergarten-entry assessments is renewing debate among early-childhood educators about the benefits and pitfalls of evaluating young ...

With the implementation of the statewide Kindergarten Readiness Assessment this school year, however, teachers are being asked to take special note of their students’ learning abilities and ...

Massachusetts education officials are developing plans to test students as soon as they enter kindergarten to determine how prepared they are to start school.

Kindergarten teachers had never been expected to test students. Now they were being required to do extensive, one-on-one assessments with each student by a deadline that was just six weeks into ...

Then Sarris slowly began reading from the script for the new Kindergarten Readiness Assessment, a comprehensive test that has been expanded in Maryland to include one-on-one interaction and is ...

At least 25 states now mandate at least one formal assessment during kindergarten. Many local school districts require their own tests as well, starting just a few weeks into the academic year.

The Mississippi Department of Education has released the results of the kindergarten and pre-K assessments and the news is once again mostly good for Coast schools.

COOS BAY — Coos Bay kindergartners started school on Monday, but introductions, classroom visits and the Kindergarten Assessment took place last week.

Learning disparities based on race show up in kindergarten and persist, according to assessment data released Thursday by Oregon education officials.