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, ...

"There's this tradition at Northside that the kindergartners know once they reach first grade, they get a puppy, they get to read to that puppy," one teacher said.

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 ...

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 ...

Author Robert Fulghum famously wrote, “All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten.” But the pandemic meant that many students missed that pivotal school year or experienced a more disrupted ...

I think we can all agree there are drawbacks to this remote working thing. Don’t get me wrong–after working this way for years, I’m not complaining, but that doesn’t change the fact that it presents ...

Q: What are reasonable expectations for first-graders to manage their own morning routines? I’m finding myself getting really frustrated at the thousandth “put your shoes and jacket on.” I also give ...