As La Cañada Unified School District considers how to bring campuses into the 21 st century, a class of Palm Crest Elementary second-graders met Friday with architects-in-training from Cal Poly Pomona ...

All summer, my 6-year-old and I waited for the letter telling us the name of his first-grade teacher. When it arrived, we got a surprise: He'd be in a new blended first- and second-grade classroom.

GREAT BARRINGTON — It's Jennifer Annand's first year teaching second grade at Muddy Brook Elementary School, but the former art teacher's creative energy seems to be catching on with her students.

Enzo Delia, a second grader at Hershey Elementary School, sometimes daydreams in class. But all he has to do is roll back and forth a bit on his red bouncy ball to remind himself to focus, he said. "I ...