Education experts have a solid answer. If kindergarten is about transitioning away from the play-based learning of preschool, then first grade is about stepping fully into the world of academics. “The ...

This article is part three of a three-part series about teaching computer science in the public schools of Massachusetts. Parts one and two are also available online. While about 20 first-graders sat ...

Parents and teachers are responsible for three pivotal benchmarks in a child’s development of brain circuitry for reading: the first from birth to age 3 or 4, a second at the beginning of kindergarten ...

In 2002, big dreams were infectious in this small manufacturing city where the Wasatch Mountain Range provided the backdrop of some of the ski events of the Olympic Games. That year, educators in ...

American students are failing to meet certain expectations on their reading skills due to school interruptions caused by the pandemic. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, kindergartners missed most of the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS (AP Education Writer) ATLANTA (AP) — Michael Crowder stands nervously at the front of his third grade classroom, his mustard-yellow ...

In this second of a two-part post, I collaborate with co-author Dr. Molly Ness of Fordham University to show how analysis of writing in children as young as kindergarten shows evidence of foundational ...

Michael Crowder stands nervously at the front of his third grade classroom, his mustard-yellow polo shirt buttoned to the top. “Give us some vowels,” says his teacher, La’Neeka Gilbert-Jackson. His ...