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 ...

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 ...

The first thing students did in Carrie Collins’ first-grade class at Conley Elementary School in Chandler was wash their hands, standing six feet apart in line at the sink. It was the first day of ...

First grade is a crucial transitional year for young children, as they make the change from kindergarten to big kids’ school. This may mark the first time they are eating in the cafeteria with their ...

Brian And Tiffany Aske of Oakland, Calif., desperately want their daughter, Ashlyn, to succeed in first grade. That's why they're moving--to Washington State. When they started Ashlyn in kindergarten ...

The state passed out report cards Wednesday, and celebration mixed with relief at the Broward County Public Schools administration building. For the first time since 2011, the district earned an “A” ...

Author Robert Fulghum famously wrote, “All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten.” But the pandemic meant that many students missed that pivotal school year or experienced a more disrupted ...

Editor's note: This is the third in a five-part series of articles honoring retired educators for Teacher Appreciation Week. RUSSELLVILLE, Mo. - Growing up alongside an older sister and her identical ...