Most adults have only hazy memories of the early grades in school. So when parents and grandparents watch their little ones march off to join America's education system, a natural question arises: ...

Waynesville school officials are considering making changes in January to the unique approach the district has taken in educating first graders since the beginning of the school year. Due to the ...

Recent shifts in policy and practice have brought an increasingly more academic focus to the early grades, evidenced in rising standards and the now widely accepted notion that kindergarten is the new ...

Heather Miller, a first grade teacher in Austin, Texas, works with a small group of students in her classroom on reading skills. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers ...

Nathaniel Mansfield wasn’t just costumed as a police officer at Kesterson Elementary School on Thursday. The 6-year-old was a K-9 officer — as it said on his black shirt — and for good reason. “So I ...

Writing by hand may feel like a relic of life before the digital age, with notes apps and emails taking the place of sticky-note reminders and handwritten cards. But it’s a utilitarian skill that ...

First-grade students at Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) Pierce Terrace Elementary on Fort Jackson, S.C. recently tested their creativity by designing and constructing helpful robots ...

The St. Tammany Parish school system will hold spring registration for the 2012-13 school year beginning April 23 for students entering kindergarten and first grade for the first time in the system.