Maryland has come up with a new test for its nearly 67,000 kindergarten students called Ready for Kindergarten, or R4K. Skip to content. NOWCAST WBAL-TV 11 News at Noon.

LAUSD has made transitional kindergarten testing optional after months of complaints from teachers and parents, who say it’s inappropriate for preschool-age kids.

As kindergarten is an entry year for most of those programs, many parents are hiring private tutors, researching tests used in other large urban school systems, finding age-appropriate questions ...

One kindergarten teacher estimates that by the end of the school year she’ll have lost about 95 hours of class time to test administration. Photo illustration by James Emmerman.

The first important test a child takes may be the one that determines whether he or she is ready for kindergarten.Since 1986, a state law has required school officials to test children who turn 5 ...

(Reuters) – With school in full swing across the United States, the littlest students are getting used to the blocks table and the dress-up corner – and that staple of American public e… ...

The percentage of Florida youngsters deemed ready for kindergarten plummeted last year, thanks to a new test that tripped up many 5-year-olds. About 54 percent of the students who started kindergar… ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed legislation that exempts transitional kindergarten students from an English proficiency assessment designed for older children. The backstory: Under state and federal ...

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It's not the Ready for Kindergarten test that's causing concern among some teachers, it's the time educators said it takes to administer the tests. Skip to content. NOWCAST WBAL-TV 11 News at 4pm.