Exactly how much reading of whole books—especially novels—students should be doing is a contested topic, with no clear ...

English learners are sometimes an afterthought in 'science of reading' policies. Some educators want to change that.

Edward Stratemeyer had a plan to get American children reading. An ambitious paper merchant in Newark, New Jersey, he’d ...

Assembly Bill 1454 marks a turning point in California in a long-running debate over how to teach kids to read. For decades, ...

While PBS itself won’t shut down anytime soon, they have now lost their largest source of financial support. This loss more ...

For Lisa Parry, a 12th-grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT ‒ which serves up fresh ideas. Before her students ...

Nearly 40 percent of third graders who attend school in Little Rock's public system are "at risk" for being held back. LEARNS requires third graders be caught up at that stage, and they can't go on to ...

Without substantial reading skills, “the risk is that future generations will simply be unable to think as deeply and with as much complexity as in the past." ...

In the year since Philadelphia adopted a new curriculum based on the science of reading, students’ state test scores have fallen. Officials say progress in literacy won’t be linear.

The screenings give teachers and parents early indications of areas that can help children learn to read and could point to a need for further evaluation.

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I recognize I usually start with some kind of funny story or joke, but this is definitely not one. It's a simple question: Has any policy ever looked more politically dunderheaded in immediate ...