With the kids home from elementary schools across the country in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, Michelle Ferre, a fourth grade teacher at Maryland’s Crofton Elementary School, joins TODAY via ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio students who were held back from fourth grade due to a state law requiring struggling readers to repeat third grade performed better on English language arts in fourth through ...

Students celebrate at the end of basketball club at Adams Elementary School on Dec. 5, 2025. The Spokane district has ...

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, ...

Who's got it better in life, kids or adults? A group of fourth-graders in New Jersey did some serious reporting on this topic and sent us their findings as a part of NPR's Student Podcast Challenge.