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 ...

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 ...

This fall, about 50,000 Wisconsin public school kids will start first grade. They'll file through hundred-year-old hallways and new builds, meeting teachers just out of college or 40-year veteran ...