San Francisco's move to replace its homegrown ethnic studies curriculum with an off-the-shelf course leaves some parents and ...

After Rutland Mayor Mike Doenges’s reelection, he announced on March 18 that he would not reappoint Peters as the city’s ...

School’s out — and summer reading challenges are in. Everywhere from public libraries to bookstores like The King’s English Bookshop and Barnes & Noble to Chuck E. Cheese are kicking off summer ...

New Neuroscience Shows Why It’s So Important to Read Aloud to Your Kids Surveys show fewer parents are reading aloud to their kids. Here’s why even the busiest of parents should make the time.

Our Kids Read has donated over 50,000 books to elementary school students and raised $250,000 to fund literacy initiatives nationwide. Jahmal Lake is the founder of the Black-led nonprofit Our ...

The timing of when a child learns to read is also impacted by the reading that is or isn't done in the home, since that's where many kids first develop a love of books and reading, explains Becky ...

Controlling for district demographics is especially important in an analysis like this, focused on early reading skills. Unlike math, where learning is more directly tied to school-based instruction, ...

Recently, a Maori literary expert Maia Bennett in a judge panel for the NZ Book Awards For Children said that representation through children’s books might be the most important factor in getting kids ...

A recent study reveals that children with autism spectrum disorder exhibit different patterns of attention compared to their neurotypical peers during shared book reading activities. Researchers found ...

A recent report on Southern Baptist churches from Lifeway Research found that about 58% of those congregations said they do background checks on staff who work with kids, with small congregations ...

Connecting background knowledge to reading comprehension is not a new idea. A famous 1987 experiment documented that children who were weaker readers but knowledgeable about baseball understood a ...

Makiya Burton is a Springfield mother who worries that her children are not learning to read. "My children have a struggle with reading. I have a family history of having trouble with reading as well, ...