When Wendy Lundeen began teaching transitional kindergarten over a dozen years ago, it was seen as an unconventional option to help prepare children to one day enter elementary school. Fast forward 13 ...

Incoming kindergarteners get an “on-ramp” to elementary school as part of Oregon's Jump Start Kindergarten Program. Four years ago this month, one of the most devastating wildfires in Oregon’s history ...

Landmark studies of preschool programs in the 1960s and 70s showed that they could make a big difference for children from low-income families. But more recent experimental studies of preschool don’t ...

Children enrolled in transitional kindergarten programs in Michigan did better in math and English by the time they reached 3rd grade, with higher test scores than other kids who didn't go through the ...