Are our brains wired for reading? Can kids learn to read on their own? Here's what the research says and how we can implement ...

Pennsylvania schools are preparing for a major change in how children are taught to read. For the 2027-28 school year, all ...

THE COUNTRY ARE IN AND FLORIDA IS NOT STACKING UP COMPARED TO OTHER STATES. READING AND MATH SCORES WENT DOWN IN TWO AREAS, SO SOME EXPERTS QUESTION WHETHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF ...

Local YMCA Reads! program helps struggling kindergartners through fourth graders go from "learning to read" to "reading to ...

Too many of our students are sitting in classrooms struggling to read. There is a reading crisis in Virginia. The data tells us that Virginia’s students are falling behind and do not have the basic ...

LOS ANGELES — In a recent study on third-grade students in California, only 4 in 10 kids can read at grade level. It’s one of the lowest literacy rates in the country and why a Southern California ...

Palantir CEO Alex Karp attributed Zohran Mamdani’s election as New York mayor to a reverse class warfare: “I think the average Ivy League grad voting for this mayor is highly annoyed that their ...

Kevin Stocklin is a reporter on business and politics, and an award-winning writer/producer of documentary films. His work has been published in The Epoch Times, The Federalist, The Daily Signal and ...

A third grade reading and retention law took effect for Tennessee public school children in 2023. Students must meet a state reading benchmark or take extra steps to avoid being held back. Three full ...

Hutchings Academy student Zoe Hunermand helps a student with an assignment in Montarrio Carter’s class at Ingram Pye Elementary School on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025, in Macon, Georgia. Hunermand is one of ...

PHOENIX — Children typically learn to read between kindergarten and third grade, but Arizona kids are falling behind when it comes to literacy. Under 40 percent of Arizona third graders are reading at ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an ...