Most adults have only hazy memories of the early grades in school. So when parents and grandparents watch their little ones march off to join America's education system, a natural question arises: ...

In fact, sometimes students like those in Susan Breckenridge's first-grade PACE class at Dunbar Primary are so inquisitive that their teacher has to do a little research of her own. "I love working ...

This fall, about 50,000 Wisconsin public school kids will start first grade. They'll file through hundred-year-old hallways and new builds, meeting teachers just out of college or 40-year veteran ...