A former student has now, decades later, closed a rare circle by working as a teacher in the same Lakota school as her first-grade teacher who first inspired her to pursue a career as a classroom ...

Justin Chadwick’s The First Grader is a heartwarming story of an 80-year-old man’s journey to learn how to read in Kenya’s newly promised free education system. Maruge, a veteran of Kenya’s Mau Mau ...

Incoming first-graders offered advice to students starting first grade this year. Many students said they were nervous on their first day but made friends quickly. Reading, math and making friends ...

Based on the true story of an 84-year-old Kenyan who took his government’s “education for all” promise literally, The First Grader turns literacy into historical melodrama. Character is history in ...

This fall, about 50,000 Wisconsin public school kids will start first grade. They'll file through hundred-year-old hallways and new builds, meeting teachers just out of college or 40-year veteran ...