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 ...

DEWITT — The school district's plan to offer an optional class for some first graders at Schavey Road Elementary School on the use of pronouns by individuals drew backlash, enough that by Friday the ...

Colleen Laurich recently was a junior high science teacher and is now a first-grade teacher. Cathy Neiheisel is technology director and a computer teacher at Divine Infant Jesus School in Westchester, ...

The two first grade lessons are based on the Spanish text, Tortillas y Cancioncitas, by Lunn Reiser and the English text, I Like Myself, by Karen Beaumont. For each of these lessons, we recommend ...

The children huddle over their individual green chalkboards, their desks pushed together in groups of four or five. Each child wears a little white sport sock over one hand and holds a piece of chalk ...