Despite the absence of updated analysis of federal data on kindergarten expectations, teachers say that standards have continued on a more academically accelerated trajectory, even as a fair number of ...

Now, several states, including Washington, are rethinking the kindergarten curriculum and encouraging districts to revive time for block-building, coloring and imagining invisible force fields. “Play ...

As the expectations for kindergarten have risen, the changes have put boys, who tend to mature later, at a disadvantage.