Legislative audit reviews effectiveness of early literacy programs in Utah’s public schools.

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 ...

"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 ...

Recently engaged first grade teacher Kaylee Abernatha sought marriage advice from her students that proved they're wise ...

The participants attend Marin School of the Arts at Novato High School and Lynwood Elementary School in Novato.

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 ...

Many first-graders are in a classroom for the first time and don't understand the routines. The result is often chaotic, but also normal for children this age, says a professor of early childhood ...

Michael Winerip of the New York Times has assembled 25 things about first-graders in this piece, which notes that “among the many horrors associated with the killing of 20 children at Sandy Hook ...

The Great Divide is an investigative team that explores educational inequality in Boston and statewide. Sign up to receive our newsletter, and send ideas and tips to thegreatdivide@globe.com. EVERETT ...

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 ...