Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading. The ...

The students in Emily Hoard’s first-grade class trace letters in their sand trays, then break down the sounds the letters make in simple words. This is what the science of reading looks like as Hoard ...

Despite decades of research about how children learn to read, far too many schools across the country still rely on debunked methods and curriculum that fail students year after year. The most ...

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 ...

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...

Kids learn to read, and then they read to learn. That’s the saying, at least, and even if the reality is more complicated than that, it’s true that early reading is highly predictive of later-life ...

A U.K. couple has revealed the unconventional methods they have chosen when it comes to parenting and educating their three children. With no structured bedtimes or meal times and a unique approach to ...

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 ...