Milwaukee developer Barry Mandel stood before the graduating class of kindergarteners and their families at Milwaukee Academy of Science and asked them to close their eyes. "I want you to go ahead and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A student reads a book during "center time" in Heather Miller’s classroom. For two hours a day, Miller works with small groups of ...

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 ...

PELICAN RAPIDS, Minn. - First-graders squealed as they took turns shoving their plastic glove-clad fingers into calf hutch windows on a farm near here so the calves could suck on them. They fed cows ...

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 ...

A major accomplishment for some Owensboro first graders: they are now published authors!