A new randomized control trial in Mississippi has found that a good kindergarten literacy program can boost disadvantaged students’ vocabulary in kindergarten by as much as an extra month of school.

If you attended first grade from the 1930s through the ’60s, you probably learned to read their names – Dick and Jane – before you could write your own. Along with their sister Sally, Mother and ...

Rapper Kendrick Lamar is fresh off his Super Bowl LIX halftime performance. The set that clocked in at just over 13 minutes has been lauded for its deep symbolism that addressed everything from the ...

When readers first meet six-year-old Zach Taylor, he’s squeezed into the coat closet of his classroom, hiding for his life with the rest of his first-grade classmates and their teacher. The closet is ...

The Canton Black Assistance Foundation is sponsoring its Holiday Vocabulary Contest for Canton City Schools students.

This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in ...

A teacher in Africa has gone wildly viral after singing a song to her first-grade class about “private parts,” showing them where other people should not touch. Gelda Waterboer, a teacher at Rogate ...

He was not a doctor (the pen name was adopted when he wrote for the humor magazine Judge in the late 1920s). And he had no children. "You make 'em; I amuse them," he once said. But nearly a decade ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The more words young children learn, the more successful they will be in school. A new "Say & Play with Words" program in Louisville encourages families to talk to children ...