Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the past few years, the Philadelphia School District has used a homegrown curriculum created by Philadelphia teachers. This ...

March is National Reading Month, a celebration that encourages reading for all ages and promotes reading as a key feature for learning, social, and professional development. As we celebrate the value ...

EdSource · When teens counsel teens: Why peer support programs are growing We have all been reading the news about disappointing literacy rates in California, which have been exacerbated by the ...

Kudos to Education Week for rolling out a collection of articles on elementary writing instruction, a vital area of literacy development that fails to get the attention it deserves. As EdWeek’s ...

There were two huge developments in the literacy world early this year. First, the emergence of a phonics program that could impact outcomes “dramatically.” Gains for 1 st graders from the ...

American writing instruction has always involved some level of torture. What happens when technology makes it easy?

A million pages. That's the challenge the Literacy Project of North Idaho, a nonprofit, is issuing to people of all ages and ...

Every Monday and Wednesday for the past year, Dorise Adams and Mary Anne Carr have met in a classroom at United Methodist Church to achieve their singular goal: to receive their high school diplomas.

People write for a variety of purposes—including recording, persuading, learning, communicating, entertaining, self-expression, and reflection—and proficiency in writing for one purpose does not ...

85,000 adults in Kent County read below a 4th-grade level. These are people who most often moved to the United States for safety or opportunity, many times leaving behind a familiar life and ...

DETROIT (WXYZ) — The Detroit Lions hosted their first One Pride Literacy Fest on Tuesday, bringing together dozens of third graders for a day of reading and writing ...