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 ...

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 ...

All of the Taunton Public School district's elementary schools will launch a new early literacy tutoring program targeting first-grade students.

School is back in session, bringing in the first wave of students born during the pandemic, dubbed “COVID kindergartners,” ...

SAU 19 Superintendent Brian Balke said Maple Avenue Elementary School in Goffstown is practically “busting at the seams” as it tries to contain a larger-than-expected influx of first graders.