Structured literacy is an evidence-based approach to teaching reading and writing that has gained widespread attention for its effectiveness, especially for students who struggle with literacy skills.

For most people, reading is second nature — it’s almost muscle memory. As you read the words on this page right now, you likely are not thinking about how you read or the mechanisms our brains use to ...

Christine Braid works for Massey University in the capacity of a professional learning facilitator. Massey University has had Ministry of Education funding to complete research that this article ...

Still, the lawmakers behind the legislation – Reps. Justin Fleming, D-Harrisburg, and Jason Ortitay, R-Bridgeville – remain hopeful that their proposal to create a three-step plan to implement a ...

Harlyn Bell is a Special Education Teacher and Nashville resident. Since 2017, our country’s education spending has increased by over $1 trillion dollars; however, national reading and writing scores ...

What does drinking coffee have to do with teaching reading? Each is entangled with many interacting variables, making it hard to isolate a single cause (e.g., coffee, a teaching method) for a specific ...

Educator Amber Moye at City Hall: New Haven “shouldn’t be indebted to a system that doesn’t work.” Amber Moye told city lawmakers she and her fellow teachers got a glimpse of how to change the way ...

The Fall 2021 PALS Report found that reading skills in young learners are at a 20-year low. Over the past three years, reports have shown there had been little growth in reading and in some cases, ...

PROVIDENCE – For decades, elementary teachers have been teaching students to read the wrong way. The approach, called balanced literacy, teaches students to read a word by figuring out the context: ...

Along with all of the educational technology that’s made its way into the K-12 classroom over the last 10 years, we also now have a constant stream of useful, actionable data that we can use to ...