District shifts to needs-based model, targeting early literacy and struggling readers with expanded staffing and intervention ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Tracy Brower writes about joy, community and the future of work. If you want to improve your brain power and your mental ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress, just 30% of eighth-graders were proficient in reading, down from 34% in ...

(AP) — They were the kids most disrupted by the pandemic, the ones who were still learning to write their names and tie their shoes when schools shut down in the spring of 2020. Now, they’re the big ...

When we read, we use many parts of our brain. We use vivid imagery as well as memory to follow a plot, or main idea. Reading can be like mental gymnastics for the brain. Recent research supports the ...

Simply focusing on fixing early years’ reading instruction ignores the roughly two-thirds of middle and high school students, about 17 million kids, who haven’t yet reached so-called reading ...

The late Nora Ephron famously felt badly about her neck, but that’s minor compared to how people feel about their reading. We think everyone else reads faster than we do, that we should be able to ...

First grade teacher Emily VanDerhoff, who is also a member of the Fairfax County NAACP’s education committee, was incorporating phonics into her lessons before Fairfax County renewed its focus on how ...