Each is entangled with many interacting variables, making it hard to isolate a single cause (e.g., coffee, a teaching method) for a specific outcome (e.g., heart disease, reading proficiency). For ...

Our investigators examine how the program works and dig into the states that have (and have not) banned the specific method.

Simple words like "the" and "of" are everywhere, but don't follow regular phonics patterns. How should teachers approach them?

Teaching children how to identify and combine parts of words is an important component of a comprehensive approach to reading ...

A combination of trendy, but now discredited, approaches to teaching reading and a lack of specific focus at the state level has allowed youth literacy levels to stagnate, while other states — m ...

The results are “dramatic,” said Devin Kearns, a professor in early literacy at North Carolina State University, who was not ...

The Lake Placid Central School District is halfway through it’s full year of implementing a new reading curriculum mandated ...

Teaching methods are the broader techniques used to help students achieve learning outcomes, while activities are the different ways of implementing these methods. Teaching methods help students: ...

Schools are working now to overhaul literacy teaching to comply with a new state law, the Read Act. A visit to one Minnesota ...