Thirty-nine states and the District of Columbia have crafted or are developing learning standards for preschool-age children, according to the first report to analyze this new trend in the early ...

In his State of the Union address last week, President Obama brought up the topic of universal Pre-Kindergarten learning and praised the programs already in place in states like Florida, South ...

There is not a universal standard for kids going from preschool to K. The California Learning Foundations and Framework doesn’t count. It isn’t a document that goes with our preschoolers to ...

“If you look at the preschool learning standards in most states, they focus on what you might call fairly superficial skills, like, ‘can count to 20, knows at least 10 letters of the alphabet ...

State-level components of the initiative focused on building professional capacity in the pre-K to third-grade workforce, raising awareness of the potential value of early learning among policy ...

"This is about going out to the community," Crew said. "We've got to get our universal pre-K program situated in that mix." The learning standards approved Tuesday made important changes in a ...

Full-day pre-K programs funded by the state are supposed to incorporate pre-kindergarten learning standards adopted by the state Board of Regents in 2011.

The new standards document is an update of the Wyoming Early Learning Guidelines and Foundations, published in 2013 and 2015, and a follow-up to work in 2001, when Wyoming was among the first states ...

While kindergarten is meant to be a gentle, low-stress introduction to formal schooling, it’s a critically important milestone for little learners, who are developing at an astounding pace. K… ...

Changes have been made to the rigorous standards that help determine whether certain children should be admitted into kindergarten a year early. Starting this spring, children and parents will noti… ...

The standards will support students in kindergarten through adult education, ... “Social-emotional learning standards are an essential piece of providing D.C. students with a high-quality, ...