As literacy rates lag, a pediatric hospital is screening for reading ability

For some young children in Columbus, Ohio, reading assessments don’t start in the kindergarten classroom — they happen first in the doctor’s office.
Cleveland.com

Ohio should preserve, not eliminate, its Kindergarten Readiness Assessment: Jamie O’Leary

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Lawmakers in the Ohio House of Representatives want to eliminate the state’s primary measure of whether children are ready for kindergarten. In the House-passed version of the ...
Orlando Sentinel

Florida looks to improve pre-K quality with new preschool ratings

For decades, Florida faced criticism for judging the quality of its pre-K program on a “readiness” test given to young students after they started kindergarten. It was a system, critics argued, that ...

Here are the Tri-State districts with the highest, lowest kindergarten readiness

Kentucky Youth Advocates, along with the Annie E. Casey Foundation, helped collect district-by-district kindergarten ...