CANTON – Seven-year-old CJ Anderson wanted to take swim lessons but was nervous. His dad, Cortney Anderson, said the youngster loves water but fears it. Five weeks ago, the first grader at Frazer ...

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 ...

On the first day of school at Hayward’s Park Elementary, the first lesson Lori Suydam gave her first-graders had nothing to do with reading or writing or math. She taught them how to mute themselves ...

Michael Winerip of the New York Times has assembled 25 things about first-graders in this piece, which notes that “among the many horrors associated with the killing of 20 children at Sandy Hook ...

First grade students at Barr and Taft elementary schools have been taking swim lessons during school at the YMCA. Through a generous donation, the YMCA of Central Stark County was able to partner with ...