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 ...

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 ...

Joshua McGoun, a K-12 public-school teacher in Frederick, Maryland, first noticed a change in his students about 10 years ago. They began to struggle with focus. Increasingly, younger kids were not ...

After classes at Raines High School, Ronnie Gadio heads to North Shore Elementary. That’s where Gadio, an 18-year-old senior, works as a Read USA tutor. He has a story that goes beyond statistics ...

The benefits of reading with children are innumerable. Children who read with their caregivers report higher levels of reading comprehension, fluency and self-confidence. But do you know of its mental ...

Create a game, get people of all ages involved, and make a habit of reading. Here’s what literacy experts say works best.

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 ...

My post doc after finishing my degree in 1984 was teaching first grade at the bilingual elementary where I had done dissertation research. As I headed out into the real world, a widely admired ...

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A new program aims to teach them how AI works, by getting hands-on. “This new AI technology—it’s very interesting to learn how it works and understand it more,” says 10-year-old Luca, a young AI model ...