Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify the nature of the organization WestEd. Using an elementary curriculum aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards improved students’ science ...

Mahoniss Graham, 6, holds one of the treats he won for his first-grade class in a snow contest in February at the Syracuse Academy of Science. Or explain the significance of gods and goddesses, ...

This fall, educators are adjusting their lesson plans to make more time for social and emotional skills, after last year's pandemic-related closures kept many kindergartners at home. Five-year-old ...

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 ...

Chicago Public Schools' sexual education curriculum begins as soon as kindergarten, teaching kids first about human anatomy, followed by first-grade lessons on how to define "gender identity" and an ...

The Southwest Michigan school district also decided against adding two books about Islam to first grade reading materials, ...