FARGO - Maggie Shorma won't stand for sitting down. The Nativity Elementary School first-grader is hooked on being part of Jean Eppler's "standing" classroom. "It's pretty healthy for you, and you get ...

Last month, teacher Madison Swift started choking on food while in her first-grade classroom in Colonial Heights, Va. Three ...

The Davenport School’s first grade class in 1974. First step, Dan Henshaw; second step, from left, Paul Hewes, David Hewes, Beverly Donovan; third step, Karolyn (Ilnicky) LaFrancis, Cheryl (Hewes) ...

Teacher Leticia Denoya stands at the front of her classroom, at Natchaug Elementary in Windham, Conn. Her first-graders sit criss-cross applesauce on the reading rug. "Do you remember last week, we ...

Watching your kids grow up can be difficult. After all, you’ve been there since day one — they will always be your babies. You want them to grow, learn, and evolve, but that doesn't make it less ...

The words “my name is” followed by a blank space tops the assignment centered on 20 first-graders' desks in Karen Eads’ Norwood classroom. It’s the third day of school, and for some students, their ...

Last June, parents from Rose City Park Elementary wrote to leaders at Portland Public Schools to plead for a second teacher to be assigned to their school’s first grade Vietnamese dual language ...

Valentine's Day is over, but a first-grade class in Okmulgee is still celebrating. We told you about this class last month as they were trying to collect Valentine's from every state. "We are going to ...

HALEDON — First-graders in Carly Saal's class at the local public school are not letting a little extra attention go to their heads. But it must be awfully nice to have the whole planet swooning. The ...

In 2012, then Oregon governor John Kitzhaber announced a lofty goal: by 2025, the state would achieve a 100% high school graduation rate. That hasn’t happened — the state’s graduation rate is around ...