We know that many children are failing to learn to read in our nation’s classrooms. So it’s tempting to hope that tutoring by artificial intelligence could provide a solution. But how close are we to ...

Recently, an old friend of mine from elementary school ran a hand over my bookshelf, stopped, and said, “You stole this.” “I did not!” “Yes, you did. You totally stole it from school.” She pulled out ...

Outside, it was summer, but inside John Lewis Elementary School in Macon, Ga. Quantesha Pittman was teaching third graders to build words. "What's that first sound again?" she asked the room of about ...

Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...

Recently, I was with some friends and their children. One of the children was playing "LEGO Battles," a strategy game for the Nintendo DS. He was excitedly telling me about all the things he had to do ...

A popular three-cuing technique proven to help kids learn to read has become politicized as special interests promote agendas over education. chinnarach - stock.adobe.com Even though much of America’s ...

When The 74 started looking for schools that were doing a good job teaching kids to read, we began with the data. We crunched ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Thousands of aspiring teachers are graduating from educator prep programs each year unprepared ...

A U.K. couple has revealed the unconventional methods they have chosen when it comes to parenting and educating their three ...

Rauno Parrila's research on reading has been funded by the Social Sciences Research Council of Canada, Government of Alberta, Alberta Teachers' Association, Australian Research Council, Finnish ...

Reading The Buffalo News has been a lifelong priority. My family believed in newspapers. As a retired reading professor, I believe the newspaper is a requisite family expense. Born in the '30s, money ...