Reading Emergency in the U.S.
Did the results of the latest NAEP reveal a reading emergency in the USA?
Coleman: Kids Need Multiple Strategies to Succeed in Math Class. How the Number Bond Can Be a Powerful Alternative to ‘Just Adding’
Kids need multiple strategies to succeed in math class. How the number bond can be a powerful alternative to ‘just adding’
How to Help Your Students Navigate the News in a Presidential Election Year
How can teachers help their students navigate the daily deluge of political media during an election year?
Why every child needs explicit phonics instruction to learn to read
English is a code-based language, with 26 letters to represent 44 speech sounds. Children must first learn to master the code if they want to be successful readers.
Reading is more than sounding out words and decoding. That’s why we use the whole language approach to teaching it
A whole language approach to teaching reading gives kids a whole linguistic picture of how words work. This includes teaching individual letters and sounds, as well as what the words mean in context.
Fun with rhymes and word play helps children learn to read
With a complex language, like English, learning to sound out words is critical but not enough for learning how to read.
Children ‘become less active during primary years’
Children's physical activity levels drop significantly during their primary school years, research finds.
Driving Dual Language Forward
Is dual language learning the future of learning? If so how can we structure these programs so students can succeed?
Fact or fiction? Media literacy in 2020
How can we help students improve their media literacy skills and better distinguish fake news from facts?
Profiles in Innovation: Leading at the Edge of Education
Here are examples of education innovation including schools and school systems whose leaders are structuring their institutions in innovative ways, and are tackling the core design of school itself to better and more equitably serve the needs of students.