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The Case for Reading Tutoring Before 3rd Grade, Not After

This September, Savannah-Chatham County public schools tried out an intensive new tutoring program to help struggling readers ...

A First-Grade Teacher Refused to Read a Book Featuring an LGBTQ Family and Says His Job Was Threatened

A first grade classroom in Tennessee has abruptly become the latest flashpoint in the national fight over how schools handle ...

Greenville leaders read to first graders for Read Across America Week

Police Chief Richard Tyndall and Mayor P.J. Connelly visited G.R. Whitfield School to share stories with Yvonne Carroll’s ...
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First-graders are studying human anatomy and tested in a new hands-on approach

"We have six surgical tests that we need to complete," announced Gidia Santiago, teacher to a group of first-grade surgeons scrubbing in outside the restrooms. The students have been studying human ...
Green Bay Press-Gazette

What can Wisconsin first-graders expect as they start this school year? We asked the experts: former first-graders

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 ...
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First graders seek valentines from all 50 states

LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. — For this group of first graders at Good Shepherd Academy in Kingston, love is in the air, and it's traveling quite a way to get there. This Valentine's Day, all three first-grade ...
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What can Wisconsin first-graders expect as they start this school year? We asked the experts: former first-graders

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 ...