Q. How many books, reading novels I mean, should a fifth-grade student be expected to read? My son’s teacher is asking too much of him, I think, but I want him to read as much as the next kid… ...

Parents wanted the novel removed from the fifth grade curriculum, prompting a committee review.

A longstanding partnership between the Grand Rapids Public Library and Grand Rapids Public Schools aims to help fifth graders find a love for reading and set them up for future academic success.

The 38th Annual Pikes Peak Battle of the Books happened Thursday at Colorado College. Nearly 700 fifth grade students from across 78 schools in southern Colorado participated.

Norwin’s fifth grade students can read “Al Capone Does My Shirts” after the school board Monday deadlocked on an attempt to ban the book from the students’ supplemental reading curriculum ...

Imani Jean, a fifth-grade Orangeburg County School District student and National Speech Champion, is releasing her debut book, “Imani’s Voice, Imani’s Victory: The Road to a National ...

A split Mentor School Board has rejected a motion to remove a book about former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick from the district’s fifth-grade library independent reading material. “C… ...

Katie Rinderle, a fifth-grade teacher, was fired in August 2023 for reading a book about gender identity to students. The Georgia Board of Education upheld that decision on Feb. 22, 2024.

A Georgia teacher has been fired after reading a book about gender norms to her fifth-grade class. Last week, the Cobb County School Board voted 4-3 to fire Katie Rinderle after she read the book ...

A three-person tribunal has recommended against the firing of a Georgia teacher who is at risk of being terminated after reading a book about gender identity to her fifth grade class, according to ...

What has any fifth grader done to have made the world better because he or she is in it? Boy, again, as I've pointed out, it's the opposite of how many of us were raised.

ATLANTA — The firing of a Georgia teacher who read a book on gender fluidity to her fifth grade class was upheld Thursday by the Georgia Board of Education. Katie Rinderle had been a teacher for ...