Although most of them were still in diapers when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, today’s early elementary students didn’t make it through the global catastrophe unscathed. A new analysis from NWEA, an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Achievement is still lower for kids who were toddlers during the pandemic—even though they didn't experience school closures.

Students at the Penn-Kidder Campus in Jim Thorpe Area School District traded pencils for buzzers last week as kindergartners ...