Maryland has come up with a new test for its nearly 67,000 kindergarten students called Ready for Kindergarten, or R4K.

How kindergarten-readiness tests are designed and used is a question that is only growing as more states put such assessments into practice.

The littlest students are getting used to the blocks table and the dress-up corner — and that staple of American public education, the standardized test.

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Mississippi Department of Education released the states Kindergarten readiness test scores. Gulfport, Pass Christian, Harrison County gets high grades in MS.

The Alabama legislature passed a long awaited “first-grade readiness” bill Thursday, which would require students who did not complete kindergarten to take a test to enter the first grade.

Many kindergarten teachers were horrified that their first contact with new students involved administering a test that seemed cruel to at-risk kids.

D.C. will make rapid antigen tests available to pre-K and kindergarten students and staff on a weekly basis, schools Superintendent Christina Grant said Monday, a move intended to further curb ...

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A survey of kindergarten teachers showed unhappiness with the amount of time the test took away from instruction.