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A high school basketball team in Salt Lake City, Utah, had a surprising group of cheerleaders this season: 4th grade basketball players. "They've been going (to games) the past couple of years," says ...

Earlier in my career, I consistently assigned what many of us think of as traditional math homework: a worksheet with 20 similar problems or a textbook page full of several repetitive problems. This ...

SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — Fulton County Schools confirmed that a former student entered an elementary school playground and assaulted several fourth graders and a staff member Wednesday. Students sustained ...

DAYTON — High school students from Dayton visited Fairview Elementary on Tuesday morning to lead fourth-grade students in a STEM-focused Lego activity. The initiative was designed to spark interest in ...

Fourth-grade students from Joseph M. McVey Elementary School in Newark, Delaware, were invited to speak at Legislative Hall about wetlands. (Zoë Read/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South ...

A mom of two was initially baffled at her seven-year-old son’s math homework, until she noticed one crucial thing. Ashley Sanchez, from New Jersey, took to TikTok, posting under the handle ...

Iowa’s reading proficiency scores jumped nearly 11 percent after the state implemented the “Science of Reading Act” signed into law by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds in 2024. Reynolds and Iowa Department of ...

Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S. The answer to every ice breaker question? 6-7. The answer ...

Louisiana 4th graders led the entire nation in reading growth for the second consecutive testing cycle (2022 and 2024) Louisiana was one of only two states where 4th graders exceeded pre-pandemic 2019 ...

The value of homework is one of education’s most heated debates—and one of its most misunderstood. For some, homework reinforces learning while building study habits. For others, it’s unnecessary ...