Young English learners face a two-fold challenge in learning to read. They need to learn how to map spoken sounds to written letters, the phonics skills that allow them to decode words on the page, ...

as do more than 40% of high school English teachers. This approach might sound good, but it means that students work with books they can already read pretty well. And they might not have very much to ...

Only about one-third of elementary school students in the U.S. are reading at grade level, according to the recent National Assessment of Educational Progress. In response, many schools are rethinking ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Missy Testerman has been teaching at Rogersville City School for 32 years. But for the past few ...

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 ...

Kids learn to read, and then they read to learn. That’s the saying, at least, and even if the reality is more complicated ...

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 ...