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

OXON HILL, Md. – The sign outside the waiting room read: ‘Preliminaries Test, Quiet Please.’ Spellers emerged one by one, having taken the first vocabulary test in the history of the National Spelling ...

Author Robert Fulghum famously wrote, “All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten.” But the pandemic meant that many students missed that pivotal school year or experienced a more disrupted ...