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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Millions of children will grab lunchboxes, backpacks and rolling bags and head to their first day of kindergarten this year. Some ...

BROOKFIELD -- In the first week of school, Schools Superintendent Anthony Bivona went back to kindergarten and first grade. And he learned a couple new words -- in Spanish. For the first year, Center ...

ABILENE, Texas — The Main Abilene Library has a nationally recognized initiative, 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten, to help promote learning in children before they reach kindergarten. The mother of ...

When Krystyna Kalishevskyi emigrated from Ukraine with her family last year, she had experienced more trauma and fear than a 4-year-old can cope with. Going to school in California was a big challenge ...