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 ...

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 ...

"I will get teared up because I think I can't read," fourth grader Raven said. Learning to read isn't fair. It comes naturally for some students. But for others it's a frustrating, agonizing process ...

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

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 ...

Fewer children are reading for fun - but parents are trying everything from AI to dramatic voices to keep them engaged ...

WATERBURY - The school district is partnering with the Yale Child Study Center on a project whose researchers said could provide a scientific explanation behind how children learn to read - offering ...

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 ...