Without substantial reading skills, “the risk is that future generations will simply be unable to think as deeply and with as ...

Christine Pitts says there’s a simple reason why Oregon kids don’t know how to read. No one is checking how they’re taught.

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Researchers at Laurentian University are reading French books to preschoolers this month to determine the best ways to teach them new words.

As a scientist, I try to stay solution oriented. To ensure that we bend the curve and change the future, we must first ...

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Timothy E Shanahan does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Students at R. Brown McAllister Elementary School use exercises in phonemic awareness—the ability to recognize and manipulate the sounds in English—during literary instruction on March 19, 2025, in ...

Ah, the good old days! Remember when parents had a whole bag of tricks to get their kids ready for the world? Things have ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Timothy E Shanahan, University of Illinois Chicago (THE CONVERSATION) After decades of ...

More than one‐third of the world's population uses a writing system that includes both uppercase and lowercase letter forms.