A first grade teacher secretly sewed 22 students real hats based on their own drawings, and the reveal is priceless.

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 ...

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 ...

As tracking data on students grow ever more extensive, some Maryland educators are finding that the early-warning signs of a student at risk of dropping out may become visible at the very start of ...

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 ...

Learning to listen in first grade helps develop cognitive skills. Source: iStock/FatCamera Tens of millions of children around the United States are going back to school. For those starting first ...

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 ...