Yelena Hagooli has done everything possible to give her 4-year-old son the best start in life. She took him to the library every week, fed him the healthiest foods, left her job to care for him, and ...
When Sunny Lee’s son was ready for kindergarten in 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic had just begun. His school in Pleasanton, an eastern suburb of the San Francisco Bay, was holding classes online, like ...
Heather Miller, a first grade teacher in Austin, Texas, works with a small group of students in her classroom on reading skills. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers ...
To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...
Teacher Emily Dirks looked out onto a sea of young faces attached to squiggly, squirming mostly 5-year-old bodies. “Ran-Dan,” she said. “Does that rhyme? Thumbs up or down?” “No!” said the group of ...
Determining whether your child is the right age for kindergarten can be difficult. While most five-year-olds are ready to take the step to full-time classroom learning, some are not — and that’s OK.
Kourtney Marsh’s first son, Jayce, was born in January 2020. Then the world shut down. As if there weren’t enough to worry about as a first-time mom, the first year of Marsh’s son’s life was also the ...
Some teachers are making the switch from private preschools to transitional kindergarten. Others come from upper grades. Many ...
In the city of Kharkiv, in northeast Ukraine, there is a kindergarten classroom with bright yellow and green walls and long, gauzy curtains. It’s filled with toys and books. The lockers — purple, ...
I still remember the first time a student refused to step into my classroom. Initially ecstatic to start school, Truman was now red in the face from crying while my teaching assistant and I ...
It didn’t take more than one day of virtual kindergarten for Ryan Greenberg’s 5-year-old daughter, Samantha, to break down in tears, begging to go back to regular school where she could see other kids ...
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