Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube announces the formal integration of Grade R practitioners into the basic education system, highlighting transitional measures for unqualified educators.

Grade R learning or schooling for children under the age of 7 has always been optional in South Africa. But under a new Basic Education Law Amendment Bill, which will be published by the Department of ...

And it’s mostly true if you consider what they’re learning in schools now. At Protea Glen, learners can expect to learn how to code on laptops using small robots and the ASUS laptops from Grade R.

At that end of the spectrum, schools like Hodgkins or New York City’s Olympus Academy have essentially gotten rid of standard K-12 grade levels and only move students to the next learning level ...

The researchers found that early learning environments supported the emergence of pre-academic skills that persisted into early adolescence to predict children's 5th grade academic skills.