Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not all children learn to read in the same way, but schools tend to adopt a single approach to literacy. luckyvector/iStock via ...

Children and an adult read books at the Altadena Main Library in Altadena, Calif., in March 2025. Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images After decades of stagnating ...

New data shows early‑grade reading remains below pre‑pandemic levels, with first‑ and second‑graders lagging as math rises.

Balanced Literacy downplays structured phonics, where kids learn by memorizing letters' sounds. Is that why some are ...

Although most of them were still in diapers when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, today’s early elementary students didn’t make it through the global catastrophe unscathed. A new analysis from NWEA, an ...

Aldeman: Practical guide offers concrete tips and embedded QR codes that link to videos of teachers putting those strategies ...

That was the response from a handful of K-12 teachers—1st grade classroom teachers, high school math teachers, and those in between—to this question posed by Education Week in a recent (unscientific) ...

I am often asked if self-directed education works for children who are diagnosed with dyslexia. The usual assumption, in the special education world, is that such children cannot learn to read without ...

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 ...

“There is no Frigate like a Book, to take us Lands away,” wrote poet Emily Dickinson. But fewer and fewer kids are choosing to jump aboard. The statistics are startling. The number of 13-year-olds who ...

Young students are still struggling to bounce back academically from the pandemic, even though many were babies at the time.