A spirited 5-year-old, Ella Whalen squirmed away from her laptop every chance she got during Zoom kindergarten this year. One day when her mother, Christine, left the kitchen for a moment, the tyke ...

Keep your soon-to-be or leaving 1st (first) graders, ages 6 and 7, practicing their growing reading skills with the best 1st grade books for summer reading. I’ve curated a list of 1st grade books for ...

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 ...

Author Robert Fulghum famously wrote, “All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten.” But the pandemic meant that many students missed that pivotal school year or experienced a more disrupted ...

After years of watching schools experiment with various methods of evaluating their children’s work, Illinois parents are increasingly asking educators to try something novel: A’s, B’s, C’s, D’s and F ...

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 ...

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Finneas and Billie Eilish at the "Hit Me Hard and Soft" Tour at Kia Forum on December 17, 2024 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty Images) Billie Eilish and ...

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