First graders step out of the early childhood phase of life and into a classroom with less emphasis on group play and more focus on learning through reading and listening. At this age, children want ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Learning to listen in first grade helps develop cognitive skills. Source: iStock/FatCamera Tens of millions of children around the United States are going back to school. For those starting first ...

Richard Evans makes his way through rows of his students in his third grade classroom, stooping to pick up an errant pencil and answering questions above the din of chairs sliding on hardwood floors.

I had to laugh this week when my husband expressed his dismay at being completely confounded by my son’s first grade report card. As a teacher with a master’s degree, an education policy wonk, and ...

First graders are years away from finishing high school and choosing careers. But as a group of 1st grade teachers in a Kentucky district work with their young students on reading, writing, and math, ...

Javana Veras remembers pretending to read chapter books in second grade so she could sit on the beloved reading bench with her friends. “They were reading chapter books, and I was still reading baby ...

About 115 Central Cambria second graders from Jackson Elementary and Cambria Elementary came together Tuesday to build hoop ...