Running, stretching and reading for fun outside of school helps this kindergarten teacher feel her best. March 16, 2020. By ...

Pre-K and kindergarten teachers have a lot to do: teaching early literacy, numbers, interpersonal skills — and in some states, changing diapers.

The challenges show that there is more required for these programs to succeed than simply providing them.

In 1998, they didn't even ask kindergarten teachers that question. But the first-grade teachers in 1998 reported giving far fewer tests than the kindergarten teachers did in 2010. Less music and art.

But the new law changed that. Beginning in 2012, children had to be 5 by Sept. 1 to enroll in kindergarten. That left out about 100,000 who had to wait an extra year. In response, transitional ...