People with more knowledge tend to be better readers. That’s not proof that increasing knowledge improves reading. It could be that higher achieving kids like learning about the world and enjoy ...

He was reading pictures,” she said. “He was being cued by the pictures.”Matthew was a few months into a program for students ...

A new bill making its way through the New Jersey state legislature could require public schools to teach cursive writing from ...

New results from a national exam find that America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of ...

The results also highlighted the sharp divergence between higher- and lower- achieving students. The modest progress in ...

"We need to add a capital letter in the first letter of the name ... students are passing to the next grade level and still struggling with reading comprehension. With little ones reading ...

As I was reading your book, it reminded me of some of the conversations I’ve had with Joy Hakim, who wrote the great series, A History of US and The Story of Science ... on phonics and giving short ...

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Short, sharp and scabarously funny, Campbell’s energetic, raw short stories head into the backstreets and byways of Manchester. His swaggering and unsentimental style unspools societal ills ...