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: ...

Q: I have a 6½ -year-old first-grade boy in the first few weeks of virtual school. How can I help him with listening and following directions? The teacher will release them with an assignment, and he ...

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

If you are a parent who has found your elementary school-aged children’s homework to be difficult, you are not alone! Nowadays, it seems like children, who cannot even tie their own shoes, are ...

March 11 began like a typical Wednesday. Except that it wasn’t. Early that afternoon, every device in my office started ringing with news that our town had its first confirmed case of covid-19, with ...

Watching your kids grow up can be difficult. After all, you’ve been there since day one — they will always be your babies. You want them to grow, learn, and evolve, but that doesn't make it less ...

A former student has now, decades later, closed a rare circle by working as a teacher in the same Lakota school as her first-grade teacher who first inspired her to pursue a career as a classroom ...

Annie Murphy Paul is the author of the forthcoming book Brilliant: The New Science of Smart. An article in Education Week sparked a controversy recently when Thomas C. West, an evaluation specialist ...

EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. — As she begins first grade, Maggie Kuznia is already a natural storyteller. “Did you know you could eat at the Eiffel Tower?” Maggie asks a visitor she’s just met — who didn’t ...