Only about one-third of elementary school students in the U.S. are reading at grade level, according to the recent National Assessment of Educational Progress. In response, many schools are rethinking ...

Research-to-practice guides for supporting older readers outline strategies backed by evidence. The Institute of Education ...

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

As a parent and a strong believer in the power of education to transform lives, one of the biggest reasons I wanted to serve as a state representative was to make a difference in the lives of ...

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 ...

Especially in recent decades, where both parents are working full-time jobs, many studies, like one published in the Review of General Psychology, argue that fatherly love and interaction is ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. The actress and mathematician says her latest release, out this fall, is all about “creating a happy, safe association with numbers” for ...

Corrected, May 23, 2024: An earlier version of this article erroneously presented synthetic phonics and the science of reading as synonymous terms. The headline and body copy have been updated to ...