Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A student reads a book during "center time" in Heather Miller’s classroom. For two hours a day, Miller works with small groups of ...

The education system has changed, but that doesn't necessarily mean we've made progress. In 1979, first graders were expected to achieve a series of old-school milestones in areas that went beyond ...

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 ...

"We have six surgical tests that we need to complete," announced Gidia Santiago, teacher to a group of first-grade surgeons scrubbing in outside the restrooms. The students have been studying human ...

SHICKSHINNY — Northwest Area first graders experienced the magic of reading during Friday’s Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) program. RIF, a nonprofit that aims to connect children with the joy of reading ...

Madison Swift, 23, of Lakeview Elementary School in Virginia, praised her students Kolton Hersh, 7, Dereck Contreras-Franco, 6, and Bryson Doss, 6 Sam Gillette is a Staff Writer on the Human Interest ...

PORTS. THAT MOVE WOULD QUICKLY PUSH OIL HIGHER. THE ANNUAL RALSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL’S FIRST GRADE VEHICLE DAY KICKED OFF THIS MORNING, AND QUANECIA YOU WERE THERE, I WAS, AND I WAS NOT ALONE. MORE THAN ...

LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. — For this group of first graders at Good Shepherd Academy in Kingston, love is in the air, and it's traveling quite a way to get there. This Valentine's Day, all three first-grade ...

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 ...