Remember your first day of kindergarten? The only thing I remember about my first day was being afraid and my mom giving me a big hug making it all better. Seems pretty easy thinking back now, but it wasn't for my mom at the time.

PORTLAND, Ore. -- A violin prodigy from Portland will give her biggest performance Friday night at Portland State.

Hanami Froom is only 10 but she’ll share the stage at Lincoln Hall with some of the city’s finest musicians.

SALEM, Ore. (KOIN) — More than 8,500 Oregon students get their education online. It’s a growing trend with a student population that has doubled over the past 5 years.

Kids and parents rallied in Salem Wednesday for the support and continued funding of virtual public schools. Cost of the online charter schools are covered by the state.

Leaders of a new online public charter high school in Wisconsin say its focus on career and technical education will help train students for high-paying jobs in fields that desperately need workers, such as construction.

Many grandparents of today's elementary school students remember their first digital device in the classroom: a hand-held calculator made by Texas Instruments in 1967. Over the past five decades, education technology has evolved at light speed, and today, students have access to a number of learning tools literally at their fingertips.