The resilience of a fifth-grader

More physical education in kindergarten through fifth grade means less chance of obesity, especially for boys, researchers say. The study provides some of the first evidence of a causal effect between gym and childhood obesity. It is to be published ...

Fifth-grade students at Lincoln Elementary School in Mount Vernon raised $4,400 in a month-long Help-A-Thon intended to raise funds to make the annual trip in April to Mountain School affordable for all 73 fifth-graders. Coordinator Naomi Moody said ...

A group of Lady's Island Elementary parents is pushing for fifth-grade classes to return to the school. The parents met last week with Beaufort County Board of Education members to discuss the idea, and members of the School Improvement Council ...

Attention, ladies! Think back to the fifth grade. Chances are you were infatuated with boys, though they mostly were just annoyed by the opposite sex. You loved sneaking into the bathroom and trying on Mom's makeup. And slumber parties were all the ...

KIPP Tulsa College Preparatory's motto is "climbing the mountain to college," and its inaugural class of fifth-graders are doing just that. The charter middle school opened in 2005, and its first students are now graduating from high schools across ...

Jamie Burton says foremost she is a parent. Then she is advocacy director for the Rock Hill Bicycle Club. Thursday she combined the two and added teacher to the list -- giving students of Richmond Drive Elementary School a lifelong gift. Burton and ...

BEIJING, May 13 (UPI) -- Five fifth-graders were playing along a river in Kinyang City in central China's Henan province Sunday when they fell in the water. One child was rescued but the four others drowned, the state-run Xinhua News Agency ...

Lillian Poen has big plans. The 11-year-old Means Elementary School fifth grader wants to go to the University of New Hampshire. She wants to be a biologist. She wants to be a photographer. She wrote it all down on a sheet of hot pink construction ...

More than 300 fifth-graders took the school bus to Mars on Thursday. At the annual Marsville event put on by the environmental compliance division of the 96th Civil Engineering Group, the students simulated what life would be like if they visited ...