A couple of months back, my Harvard class on educational assessment met virtually with Sondra Mims and Comer Yates, CAO and CEO of the Atlanta Speech School, who asked the class to make a few educated ...

The general assumption in our culture is that children must be taught to read. Vast amounts of research go into trying to figure out the scientifically best way to do this. In the education stacks of ...

(MIRROR INDY) — When Dorla Williams sits down with students for their weekly reading test, she takes an old school approach. The educator helps four squirmy kindergarteners take their seats around a ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of my daily challenges as a parent is getting my fourth grader to read for 30 minutes as part of her homework. It’s not because she struggles with her reading skills; she actually reads well-above ...

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English as a second language students can practice by reading books about their culture. For children who are learning English as their second language, it can be beneficial to read books that relate ...