Andrew Polk, 26, teaches 10th-grade English in suburban Ohio, not far from where he grew up. As a high school student less ...

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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 ...

Restoring literacy demands we treat reading as more than a skill, but as a gateway to wisdom and understanding.

Laura Patranella makes it a priority to read at least one novel each year with her elementary school students, relishing both the depth of these works and students’ communal experience of talking ...

Early access to high-quality books can transform lives, improve educational outcomes and help create the next generation of ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

A panel of experts recommended “big shifts” in practice, but many Oregon education preparation programs say they are already ...

An education bill is awaiting Gov. Tim Walz’s signature after it cleared the House and Senate before this legislative session ended. The bill would boost school funding by $43 million next year and ...

National and state reading scores for elementary school students are down. And in Berlin, New Hampshire, some teachers and parents say there’s a literacy crisis happening in their school district. At ...

Two years and 20,650 donated books later, the Saratoga Children’s Literacy League has grown faster than co-founders Erin Smith and Debra Nicastro could have ever imagined. SCLL is a non-profit in ...