Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...

Class Disrupted is an education podcast featuring author Michael Horn and Futre’s Diane Tavenner in conversation with educators, school leaders, students and other members of school communities as ...

Despite decades of research about how children learn to read, far too many schools across the country still rely on debunked methods and curriculum that fail students year after year. The most ...

Several organizations are coming together to help parents teach their kids how to read. Through Read On Arizona, Read Better Be Better, Valley of the Sun United Way, and more, these organizations have ...

As a coalition representing educators, parents, business leaders, and other advocates, we were disturbed by the Feb. 4 op-ed “The fallacy of settled science in literacy.” Nancy Carlsson-Paige and ...

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 ...

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 ...

For Lisa Parry, a 12th-grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT ‒ which serves up fresh ideas. Before her students ...

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...