Congress ended funding for Reading First in 2009. The more recent science of reading movement, though, has been propelled by ...

Jeremiah Ramirez rolled the green modeling dough into two balls and placed a positive lead from a 9-volt battery into one and a negative into the other. Next, the 8-year-old spread the prongs of a ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. We have allowed one of the most amazing and sophisticated human accomplishments – ...

There’s an old Roman insult that goes like this: “He can’t read or swim.” The presumption is that just about anyone who applied himself (or herself) could learn these skills. Indeed, many countries ...

Things got really big in a Berks Nature classroom on Saturday. An event titled “Microscopic Science: The Small World of Angelica Creek Park” drew learners from ages 5 to older than 60. Starting with ...

Drexel University's School of Education is excited to welcome producer, writer, and star of “Hopeville: How to Win the Reading Wars,” Harvey Hubbell, as he shares his film and leads a post-film panel ...

For much of her teaching career, Carrie Stark relied on math games to engage her students, assuming they would pick up concepts like multiplication by seeing them in action. The kids had fun, but the ...

For the first time, a majority of elementary teacher education programs have adopted the tenets of reading science in their curriculum. According to the latest "Teacher Prep Review" by the National ...

At a time of rising interest nationwide in phonics-focused reading instruction, few California districts are using so-called “science of reading” curricula as their basis for teaching elementary ...

Linnea Ehri, Ph.D., distinguished professor emerita of education psychology at the City University of New York, published a benchmark science-of-reading study in 2014 summarizing decades of her work ...