Despite the absence of updated analysis of federal data on kindergarten expectations, teachers say that standards have ...

Sure, we fought over homework in kindergarten, but the end goal then was pretty simple: fill out the worksheet ... rigors at the start of first grade, an elementary school counselor told me ...

"Instead, it felt like school was a conveyor belt, and you have to be ready for higher level material in first grade." But the two are not mutually exclusive, argues Kris Perry, the executive ...