Rapid City Area Schools has launched a pilot program aimed at helping students who may not be fully prepared for kindergarten. The Junior Kindergarten initiative, introduced this year at Valley View, ...

How can parents really prepare their kids for kindergarten? Take advice from a teacher who says parents need to do one important thing: “Tell your kid no.” “‘No’ is not a bad word,” Emily Perkins, a ...

Last year, Rapid City Area Schools piloted junior kindergarten in three of its elementary schools. The results are in and favorable, according to the school district.

Photographs by Eric Ryan Anderson, Gabriella Angotti-Jones, Chase Castor, George Etheredge, JerSean Golatt, Gavin McIntyre, Alyssa Pointer, Whitten Sabbatini and Zack Wittman Boys are falling behind ...