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The “Wicked” movie has won over fans around the world, but one kindergarten class in Midtown has scored a level of access to the hit musical that would make the most die-hard followers green with envy ...

Phyllis Doerr, a kindergarten teacher in New Jersey, wrote a piece last year that painted a picture of what young kids face in the high-stakes testing era. It said in part: So this is kindergarten. We ...

I never thought I would love having a literacy teaching coach and their feedback, but I now believe it is something that can ...

Encouraging positive social interactions for the children born during the peak of the pandemic is the focus in most ...

September 18, 2025 - Meet Allison Saiki, who teaches students how to manage money, pay rent and open retirement accounts, with a class currency she calls "Saiki Cents." The rapid rollout of a hugely ...

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 ...

The first lesson of Kitten Kindergarten is that there is such a thing as Kitten Kindergarten. “When I told people at work I was coming here, no one could believe it even existed,” said Brian Skarin of ...

Just about 25 years ago minister and author Robert Fulghum penned a collection of essays titled "All I Really Need to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten" a sensible, if somewhat sappy manifesto of how to ...