So we need programs that really, and from industry's perspective too, get in front of kids while they're young in elementary school."

VOA: special.2010.04.01

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

The students from nearby Bancroft Elementary School will help grow fifty-five kinds of vegetables, herbs and berries.

VOA: special.2009.03.31

Here is how it works at London Towne Elementary School in Centreville,Virginia, outside Washington.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

Programs begin in elementary school and continue through middle and high school.

VOA: special.2009.11.27

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

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

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

She's been an elementary school math teacher for almost 30 years, and says introducing this new curriculum has been an exciting experience.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

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

Elementary school principal Oumar Sow is director of the eco-school program in Gud-Chantier.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Alex Ocean, an elementary school teacher whose Port-au-Prince school is now closed because of the quake, says he hopes that aid distribution in the camp will become better organized and that there will be international help with reconstruction.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02