Student reading scores were declining before the COVID-19 pandemic. Then, the slide got worse. Recent bright spots of ...

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With the school year winding down, 2nd graders need a learning plan that feels less like homework and more like a new game level. By combining IXL's adaptive math and language arts skills with the ...

From the first coos and giggles to decoding words in kindergarten, early literacy grows through intentional, loving interaction. Research shows that reading success is built on phonics, phonological ...

If you speak with a Northern, regional or working-class accent in Britain, you may still be judged before you’ve even ...

Fordham Institute and the RAND Corp., asked more than 1,200 K-3 teachers in the fall of 2025 about their perspectives on reading instruction, the practices they use in their classrooms, the training ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Despite decades of legislation meant to boost children’s reading levels, literacy scores have remained relatively stagnant across the U.S. over the past 30 years.

From phonics to piano, music to drama, activity classes for pre-schoolers are growing fast—and so is the cost of raising a well-rounded child.

For some people, love is not fully felt until it is put into words. Words of affirmation, as a love language, fill that gap by turning quiet care into something real and noticeable. This love language ...

A student must be able to decode before they can truly build reading fluency or comprehension. That’s not a preference. It’s how reading works. Yet in IEP meetings, I often see teams rush toward ...

Jonathan Kwan (@migrationethics) is the Inclusive Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow in Immigration Ethics with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. What term should we use to ...

First-grader Mary Greer shows her work during a phonics-based reading lesson at Hunt Valley Elementary School in Springfield, Virginia. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post) The “reading wars” that ...