Retired teacher Kathleen Alfke-Simpson created a free program called Reading Boot Camp to help children aged 3 to 17 learn to read, write in cursive, and get help with math problems.

In Raymond Elementary School’s pre-kindergarten classroom, boys and girls huddled together on a rug with their teacher to learn a foundational skill for reading and spelling: how to pull apart and put ...

Two years into his English literature degree at the University of Pittsburgh, sophomore Luke Johnson has noticed something in his liberal arts courses: Students in his classes have gone quiet.

Some children are known to engage in aggressive behavior. Experts say this could be because they are simply products of their environment, especially if they were raised in a hostile one. However, ...

Three years into the LEARNS experiment, a Jacksonville elementary school celebrates success. Critics brace for mass retention of third graders and big budgetary hits.

Teachers at Cutter Morning Star School District spent Monday analyzing student data and planning instruction to help struggling readers meet Arkansas' third grade promotion requirement.

Best-selling author Judy Blume built her reputation by taking children’s lives and what they cared about seriously before many other children’s authors gave them the same credit. Across characters ...

How has a new English and language arts curriculum impacted students in the Philadelphia School District? The NBC10 ...

Recently in Oklahoma City, a House subcommittee advanced House Bill 4420 — one of more than a dozen serious literacy bills ...

But he also has some really cool things that he’s working on, or that’s coming up, that just reinforce how lucky he’s been this year and how unique his last year of elementary school has been. At one ...

Math vocabulary alone isn’t a silver bullet—but research shows it’s linked to stronger academic achievement when paired with expert teaching practices.

Legislators are considering a bill that would establish the Mississippi Math Act and require implementing interventions similar to those that led to the state’s celebrated gains in reading. Wake up ...