ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Jermaine McClure stands in the back of his 4th grade classroom, carefully looping into a knot the plaid tie wrapped around his neck. To hear the 9-year-old talk, the too-long tie ...

ALAMEDA, Calif. -- Ryan Brazil, a 4th-grade teacher in Alameda, California, came up with an inspiring class project. Her class wrote, illustrated, and published a book, "Anti-Bias ABCs," to help ...

In fourth grade, students focus most on using all four operations - addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division - to solve multi-step word problems involving multi-digit numbers. Fourth-grade ...

Their gross motor skills, which involve whole-body movement, are fully developed by this age, although they will continue to be refined over the next few years. The same applies to fine motor skills, ...

PLEASANT GROVE — Rita Lewis' fourth-grade class recently wrote essays to enact change at Central Elementary School. The hand dryers in the bathroom across the hall made learning difficult, and the ...

What do the Montauk lighthouse, a school mural, a trampoline accident, a forced migration, and the Quartering Act of 1765 have in common? These are the subjects of winning podcasts submitted by fourth ...

Dwayne Reed may have found the secret to getting kids excited for school. — -- A first-time teacher may have discovered a surefire way get students excited for the dreaded first day of school by ...