Banging away on one of her favorite toys, 3-1/2-year-old Katelyn Smith shut out the usual sounds of her living room in Herndon, Va., her baby brother crying and her mother fussing over him. The little ...

As a teacher in Oakland, Calif., Kareem Weaver helped struggling fourth- and fifth-grade kids learn to read by using a very structured, phonics-based reading curriculum called Open Court. It worked ...

World Coding Day was celebrated on 29 October and it’s worth asking what Foundation Phase teachers in South Africa really need from Coding and Robotics. The answer isn’t flashy kits or complex ...

As schools around the nation scramble to respond to the alarm bells set off by falling scores on “the nation’s report card,” we—two university professors who teach reading courses and who are former ...

WASHINGTON — Back in the 1980s, when Mary Pat Donoghue completed her bachelor’s degree in elementary education, “Units of Study for Teaching Reading” was a popular new program that celebrated children ...

On a chilly Tuesday back in January, my 7-year-old son’s classroom in Minneapolis was humming with reading activities. At their desks, first- and second-graders wrote on worksheets, read independently ...

Like other veteran elementary school teachers in Baltimore, Ellen Mass-Soltz was skeptical — perhaps even a bit cynical — about the new phonics-based reading textbooks bought last summer for every ...