The “science of reading” is making its way onto more governors’ and state legislators’ priority lists as the 2024 legislative session gets underway. In Massachusetts, Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat, ...

After spending years in the classroom, Jessica Reid Sliwerski decided to tap into her experience as an elementary school teacher and principal to teach as many kids as possible to read using a science ...

A first grade student is trying to read a passage on her iPad. A digital avatar Amira, clad in olive green, is listening. Her face isn’t particularly demonstrative, but she’s trying her best with ...

After 13 years of teaching, Hillsboro kindergarten teacher Kandi Hess did not know the rule that determines when the letter g makes the hard “guh” sound versus the soft “juh,” until she started a year ...

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...

Author Robert Fulghum famously wrote, “All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten.” But the pandemic meant that many students missed that pivotal school year or experienced a more disrupted ...

Hanby Elementary School's Foster Tales Puppy Therapy program launched last year. A Delaware teacher says a program that brings foster puppies into the classroom is helping students improve their ...

As a girl, Kylie Altier struggled in school. Nervous and shy, she had trouble reading — dyslexia, she learned. “I just really felt like I wasn’t that smart or special,” she remembers. Her first grade ...

It’s agreed across the spectrum of education that, ideally, until third grade kids learn to read and, after that kids read to learn. A wealth of statistics show that children who are not reading ...

Readers discuss an article about a trend back to emphasizing phonics. To the Editor: Re “She Helped Transform Reading Lessons. Now She’s Backtracking” (front page, May 22): As an educator for 30-plus ...