This article about play-based kindergarten was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.
EVERETT, Wash. — On a sunny winter morning in Sara Stevens’ kindergarten classroom at Pathfinder Kindergarten Center, 5- and 6-year olds learned about colors, shapes, engineering and design.
Not a pencil or worksheet was in sight, however. These kids were playing.
Standing in front of a child-size kitchen in the corner of the classroom, Jamila dropped a plastic tomato, a hot dog, a banana and a fish into a small metal pot.
“The cake’s ready!” she proclaimed… Read More
Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news organization covering public education in communities across America. Subscribe to our free Colorado newsletter to keep up with education news from around the state: ckbe.at/subscribe-colorado
Kindergarten enrollment is down. Dropout rates are up. Public school enrollment still hasn’t rebounded to where it was in 2019, before COVID turned education upside down.
Where have the kids gone? A new analysis by The Associated Press and Stanford University’s Big Local News project found an estimated 230,000 students in 21 states absent from publicly available data on public and private school enrollment and home schooling. That tally includes… Read More
HUMBLE, Texas — A kindergarten teacher in Humble, Texas was caught slipping melatonin gummies to students in a special education class.
A parent of one of the students who was given melatonin told ABC Houston affiliate KTRK the principal called her to tell her what happened.
The mother, who doesn’t want her name used, says her 5-year-old son is nonverbal, and this is her worst nightmare: something happened at school, and her son is unable to communicate.
She said her son’s teacher had called him before asking for advice on how to calm him down.
“She called me a few… Read More
