Question sparked debate and confusion, with one user stating they were "honestly shocked" this was being asked of a ...

Assembly Bill 2226, introduced by Al Muratsuchi, D-Torrance, would require all children to attend kindergarten before enrolling in first grade. However, attending private or homeschool kindergarten ...

In Buffalo, N.Y., the district sent a group of more than 600 low-performing first graders to mandatory summer school; even so, 42 percent of them have to repeat the grade.

There is a newly published study out of the University of Virginia titled, “Is Kindergarten the New First Grade?” (based on a 2014 working paper), which finds, not surprisingly, that it is ...

First grade brings new demands: sit still longer, pay closer attention, follow more rules, and so on. That may not sound like fun, but it’s not all bad.

First grade in particular — “the reading year,” as Miller calls it — is pivotal for elementary students, when their literacy skills “really take off.” Kindergarten focuses on easing children from a ...

The children — 790 of them, representative of the Baltimore public school system’s first-grade class in 1982 — grew harder to track as the patterns among them became clearer.

First-grade teacher Sonja White took her students on a pretend trip to Mexico for Hispanic Heritage Month to inspire a love of traveling. She not only transformed her classroom into an airplane ...