People in the industry note that pencils continue to be the essential, easy-to-use writing tool for grade schoolers, especially from the kindergarten level up to fourth grade. And as the ...

Teachers often have trouble finding enough time in the school day to teach all the expected writing skills, let alone cursive handwriting.

The studies looked at how students performed when given mathematics and writing items from the National Assessment of Educational Progress by paper and pencil ... samples of 4th and 8th graders ...

These 4th Grade Math Journal Writing Prompts will have kids reflect on the subject, encourage math discussion, and practice math vocabulary. My son isn’t the biggest fan of math. We’ve tried ...

“I just thought wow what a better way to have a pen pal program, to have these kids, they can work on their writing skills,” said Valerie Krieger, 4th grade teacher and founder of Operation Sav ...

Even though both darkness and hardness vary among brands, No. 2 and/or HB pencils are widely considered to be the ideal lead grade for writing (and they’re required for many standardized tests).

Author and literary agent Alexandra Penfold can speak firsthand on how standardized testing shouldn’t define young students. One of her tweets from July 2018 about academic performance is making ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- What started as a fourth grade writing assignment led a student at a Fort Knox school to publish his own children's book. According to a news release Thursday from Fort ...

In fact, the standards only briefly mention print handwriting, a writing style in which the ... only 31% of fourth grade students scored proficient or above. Philadelphia’s numbers were ...