If all goes according to plan, public school testing will drum out any vestiges of creativity by the start of first grade. Credit: Erin Althea It was the fourth week of school—day 21, to be exact—when ...

Back in 2014, I ran a post titled, “A very scary headline about kindergartners,” which started this way: Rob Saxton is Oregon’s deputy superintendent of public instruction. Jada Rupley is the early ...

A bill moving through the California Legislature would assess students as early as kindergarten on math. It's part of an ...

Robyn Noble is a public school kindergarten teacher in Providence, R.I., who has become alarmed at the excessive standardized testing of young children, as well as the design of the exams and what is ...

A bill moving through California’s legislature would require schools to test kindergarteners' math skills.

ANNAPOLIS — Several education bills, which would limit the amount of standardized testing in public schools during the academic year, and give assessments to only a sample of kindergarten students, ...