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Little kids experience all of life at full volume, without the checks and balances of emotional restraint that comes, ...

The roughly 1,000-student rural district developed its own grade-level standards for what’s come to be known as soft skills, ...

Photo Credit: iStock/Weekend Images Inc. With a record number of preschoolers kept at home during the pandemic, it is hard to determine the impact of readiness for children who will begin kindergarten ...

Nov. 29—As a kindergarten teacher, Derrick Criner knows that progress is a process and trying new things may lead to enriching experiences. Initially, the 2013 Glacier High School grad thought he ...

A new report draws a line from today’s civics crises to a long-standing failure to effectively teach American government and history in our public schools. On this episode, we explain what the ...

Parents weren't as supportive of her perspective as you might think. I’m not embarrassed to admit on Beyonce’s internet that I am a gentle parent. That being said, I always set firm limits with my ...

Hopefully these young minds will grasp onto some of these concepts and will go home and around the dinner table talk to their ...

Deejha Blash-Lopez is technically a new teacher, but she already has three years of experience at Longmont’s Mountain View Elementary as she starts her first year as one of the school’s kindergarten ...

Aneka Burton still remembers the way her then 10-year-old son, Nikko, who is black, recounted his experience to his grandfather after school one day. It was 2011. But Burton believes the classroom ...