Several weeks before the official start of the coming school year, 18 kindergartners-to-be wearing big-kid backpacks filed into Maria Surface’s snug, sunny classroom at Beaverton’s Vose Elementary ...

One of the first times New Orleans kindergarten teacher Molly Mansel gave her class a computer-based standardized test last fall, the 30 5-year-olds didn’t know how to take it. The children, raised in ...

WEBVTT MARYLAND HAS COME UP WITH A NEW TEST WHICH NEARLY 67,000 KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS WILL TAKE. IT IS CALLED READY FOR KINDERGARTEN. IT IS NOT THE TEST CAUSING CONCERN FOR SOME TEACHERS. IT IS THE ...

In 2014 we've covered education as the world-changing story it is and you've been along for the ride. And so at year's end, NPR Ed reached far and wide to bring you a set of provocative predictions ...