School is out, the mercury is climbing at a record pace, and young people across America are at risk of losing the reading and math skills they learned during the academic year. In an average year, ...
To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...
"I will get teared up because I think I can't read," fourth grader Raven said. Learning to read isn't fair. It comes naturally for some students. But for others it's a frustrating, agonizing process ...
Educators in Illinois have a January deadline to draft a plan for improving how reading is taught in the state. This comes as average reading test scores remain low. This year’s scores are due out ...
Technology is changing how we read—and that means we need to rethink how we teach. Linus Merryman spends about an hour a day on his laptop at his elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, mostly ...
The general assumption in our culture is that children must be taught to read. Vast amounts of research go into trying to figure out the scientifically best way to do this. In the education stacks of ...
Like most of us, I don’t remember very much about learning how to read. I just remember loving it. I read in the car, I read while walking down stairs, which drove my parents crazy, and I frequently ...
The Waterbury Board of Education approved the partnership in the study, called RePEAT, or Reading Patterns Explored Across Tasks, at its Nov. 19 meeting. Participation in the project is voluntary for ...
According to AAP, there is no strict screen time limit for children above 5 years of age. Instead, they recommend creating a ...
Call it the end of an era for fantasy-fueled reading instruction. In a move that has parents like me cheering, Columbia University’s Teachers College announced last month that it is shuttering its ...