On average, North Carolina is slightly ahead of the rest of the country in terms of getting kids ready for kindergarten – but children from lower-income families are lagging behind their peers, new ...

A child’s ability to use their words, identify several numbers and letters and even count all the way to 10. These are some of the factors that go into the idea of a child’s “readiness” for school — a ...

Children who attended local Preschool Promise-affiliated programs scored significantly higher in kindergarten readiness than their non-attending peers, according to state data recently analyzed by the ...