SYRACUSE, N.Y., Jan. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Reading League, a national nonprofit led by educators and reading experts who advance the knowledge and implementation of the science of reading, will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earlier this summer, the curriculum and assessment company Amplify reported that 70% of kindergartners and first graders were on ...

The government has made some bold claims for its school reading policies – including that early results have been “transformational”. But we should be careful about rushing to judgement this early.

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 ...

Like many in my generation, I grew up in a print-bred universe of books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, Bibles (in my case the Douay) and especially newspapers. Information was physical. It arrived ...

The experiment was simple; so too, you may have thought, was the task. Students of literature at two American universities were given the first paragraphs of “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens and asked ...

W hen I was an undergraduate at Amherst College, it was a rite of passage for all English majors to discover that they had entirely misunderstood Robert Frost’s most famous poem “The Road Not Taken” ( ...

People have nightmares of AI-powered killing machines turning our world into a robotic dystopia. But a less-bloody yet equally striking transformation is already under way — one in which ...

Earlier this summer, the curriculum and assessment company Amplify reported that 70% of kindergartners and first graders were on track to learn to read. According to data collected from a test called ...