The success of virtual tutoring program being used in Westfield's elementary schools to help first graders learn to read has confirmed independent research that it significantly boosted reading ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AUSTIN, Texas – Most years, by the third week of first grade, Heather Miller is working with her class on writing the beginning, ...

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 ...

A special committee under the presidential National Education Commission has proposed excluding first- and second-grade ...

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 ...

An estimated 12% of first graders' most-used media at home is educational, a new study suggests. Results also showed that higher use of educational media was associated with both more time spent ...

Six-year-olds can't really talk to adults about the problems they may experience with mathematics. It is hard for teachers to know for certain who is keeping up and who is lagging, says Prof Elizabeth ...

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My son was visibly proud to show me off to his class that day, and I was secretly proud to send his classmates home to talk about poop at the dinner table. After reading one of his favorite books to ...

The Chicago Tribune has a story on the apparently growing use of Twitter in 1st grade classrooms. According the article, some early-grades teachers have their students using the micro-blogging tool, ...

Last September, Savannah-Chatham County public schools tried out an intensive new tutoring program to help struggling readers catch up before state reading tests at the end of 3rd grade. By winter, ...