It's never too late to teach your kids an important lesson, even if they're already adults. Especially in recent decades, where both parents are working full-time jobs, many studies, like one ...

Like all social norms and institutions in our culture, schools and education have drastically changed over the last few decades. Obviously, there’s the emergence of technology and screens that have ...

As educators, when we think of reading in the classroom, we typically consider the act of teaching to read (phonics, vocabulary, etc.) or the act of reading to learn. We follow the curriculum chosen ...

For Lisa Parry, a 12th-grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT ‒ which serves up fresh ideas. Before her students ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

Angie Hackman teaches chemistry at Health Sciences High and Middle College in San Diego, where all teachers are required to integrate literacy instruction into their classes. Credit: Image provided by ...

New York City school superintendents are boasting that instructors use artificial intelligence (AI) to teach kids reading comprehension. In an opinion article for education policy outlet The74, ...

In 2024, The 74 looked for school districts that were doing an exceptional job of teaching kids to read. One of the places we ...

All computers come with spellcheckers and iPhones autocorrect their users’ texts. But despite those everyday features, formal spelling instruction still pays off, the findings of a new study suggest.

Call it the end of an era for fantasy-fueled reading instruction. In a move that has parents like me cheering, Columbia University’s Teachers College announced last month that it is shuttering its ...

New York City school superintendents are boasting that instructors use artificial intelligence (AI) to teach kids reading comprehension. In an opinion article for education policy outlet The74, ...