Children in full-day kindergarten (FDK) do experience some benefit from the Ontario program, according to a recent study by the University of Toronto, but only in some areas. The study “Key ...

A new randomized control trial in Mississippi has found a kindergarten literacy program can boost disadvantaged students' vocabulary in kindergarten by as much as an extra month of school.

If this new study linking the vocabulary of two-year-olds to kindergarten success proves anything, it’s that it’s never too early to start building the vocabulary skills of our youngest learners. All ...

A new study finds that the size of a 2-year-old's vocabulary predicts that child's reading, math, and self-regulation abilities in kindergarten.

Weiland and co-author Hiro Yoshikawa studied two groups of more than 2,000 preschoolers; half attended pre-kindergarten in 2008-2009, the year before they began kindergarten, and the younger ...

Program designed to help underserved pre-kindergarten children. The PNC Foundation introduced a new Muppet called Buzz World and a $19 million vocabulary initiative for underserved pre ...