The first thing you have to understand about first-grade soccer is how real everything suddenly feels to the kids. For many of the kids (including mine), this month represents their first experience ...

To find talented children who historically have been overlooked in gifted education, Wheeler Elementary educators are learning to see their students in a new way. Early one morning this fall, 3rd ...

We sit at a tiny desk in small, blue-plastic molded chairs, and she tells me what she’s learned in first grade. Lesson Number One: First grade is hard. Harder than expected. At night, when she would ...

Hoping to avoid distractions in the wake of last week’s uproar over a first-grade lesson plan, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board has delayed a public hearing on a diversity policy that adds LGBT ...