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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most adults have only hazy memories of the early grades in school. So when parents and grandparents watch their little ones march ...

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 ...

As a girl, Kylie Altier struggled in school. Nervous and shy, she had trouble reading — dyslexia, she learned. “I just really felt like I wasn’t that smart or special,” she remembers. Her first grade ...

The Alabama legislature passed a long awaited “first-grade readiness” bill Thursday, which would require students who did not complete kindergarten to take a test to enter the first grade. If signed ...

Of her 23 years as a teacher, Jennifer Pearce has been at CTA Independence since it opened in 2006. She enjoys watching her students’ faces “when they grasp a new idea,” but said an equally “positive ...