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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

Stacey Canova and Carly Saal, close friends and fellow teachers, have taught first graders at Haledon Public School for more than two decades.