The Vicksburg Post

TEACHER OF THE YEAR: Brown values literacy and open communication

First-grade teacher Somer Brown, a finalist for the title of Educator of the Year, explains how foundational reading skills, ...
PBS

1st Grade

Valley PBS and Fresno Unified School District have partnered with Golden 1 Credit Union to create Reading Explorers Lessons for grades Pre-Kindergarten through Third grade. The daily lessons will be ...
Education Week

History Lessons Blend Content Knowledge, Literacy

For years, bands of educators have been trying to free history instruction from the mire of memorization and propel it instead with the kinds of inquiry that drive historians themselves. Now, the ...
The Hechinger Report

‘The Reading Year’: First grade is critical for reading skills, but kids coming from disrupted kindergarten experiences are way behind

Heather Miller, a first grade teacher in Austin, Texas, works with a small group of students in her classroom on reading skills. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers ...
The Hechinger Report

Retraining an entire state’s elementary teachers in the science of reading

A kindergarten student raises her hand during a reading lesson in Jennifer Lee’s class at Southwest Primary School in Hickory, N.C. Credit: Ariel Gilreath for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report ...
WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR

Can focus on reading create a 'Milwaukee miracle' for students? Lessons from other states

A renewed focus on literacy in Milwaukee borrows a training program responsible for a huge turnaround in reading scores in ...