It is a nationwide program that connects people over age fifty-five with elementary school students from low-income families.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

Chaniya Anderson is a second grader at Whittier Elementary School in Washington.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

Sasha, a 2nd grader, is in elementary school in nearby Bethesda, Maryland.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

The children are all fourth-graders at a Washington-area elementary school.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

Now,small trees dot the once barren schoolyard of a village elementary school, along with special trash cans for biodegradable waste.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Jackson's elementary school music teacher Anita Hill shared a story about the energetic young student eager to sing music.

VOA: standard.2009.07.11

Scott Baldridge, an expert on this approach. Baldridge has designed a training program for elementary school math teachers who want to use it.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

One group of elementary school math teachers gathered recently in Baker,Louisiana to learn more about Singapore Math, a curriculum they have recently begun to teach.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

"It's recommended that children get 150 minutes of exercise a week at elementary school and 225 minutes in secondary schools and yet they are not.

VOA: standard.2010.03.09