Incoming first-graders offered advice to students starting first grade this year. Many students said they were nervous on their first day but made friends quickly. Reading, math and making friends ...

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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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Timothy E Shanahan, University of Illinois Chicago (THE CONVERSATION) After decades of ...