July 4 th is the celebration of America’s birthday. It brings lots of sounds like sizzling barbeque, pool splashing, and ...

Craving another dragon-filled page-turner after "Fourth Wing" by Rebecca Yarros? Here 10 more books similar to her The Empyrean series.

Story time can be effective in guiding students—even middle school students—to recognize the possibilities of producing their ...

Nearly a quarter of third graders did not pass the state’s reading test on their first try. Many are now in summer school, ...

Buffalo-area initiatives strengthen early literacy, support teacher training through residencies, and expand access to ...

A third of parents said they wished they had more time to read aloud to their children. It’s easy enough to see why parents and kids might feel so exhausted at the end of the day that they’d ...

One example of this policy whiplash is Michigan's short-lived third grade reading law. Written by Republicans and signed by Gov. Rick Snyder, the 2016 law required schools to hold back third ...

When I read Pete the Cat and the Missing Cupcakes, by Kimberly and James Dean, illustrated by James Dean, to my class, we worked on learning objectives for subtraction, rhyming, asking and answering ...

EdTrust‘s report highlighted the difference in fourth-grade reading for all students over two decades with Michigan falling by 10 points compared to the nation’s two-point decline.

That's far past inflation, and a more rapid increase in spending than other states. Notably, fourth grade reading scores dropped through the decade, and rank Washington in 18th place nationally.

Students in Jeremy Lowe's fourth grade class at Parkside Elementary read "warm-up plays" they wrote on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. Atlanta Public Schools saw significant improvement in fourth grade ...