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

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

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

One the world’s top literary honours, the Booker Prize, is launching a new award to celebrate children’s literature and ...

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.

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 ...

A University of Chicago study suggests robots could offer a new kind of support to help kids eliminate anxiety about reading out loud. Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing ...

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 ...

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." ...