Low state test scores in reading is a cause for concern in the Alpena Public Schools district, but a science of reading ...

A former Sacramento classroom teacher is tackling the nation’s literacy crisis. Chandra Roughton founded Luminous Minds in 2020, an educational website and early learning platform.

What actually happens inside the brain when learning works? Drawing on neuroscience, this breakdown of Stanislas Dehaene’s 'How We Learn' explains attention, error, practice, sleep, and motivation, ...

Kaiden was in tears. My first-grade student, struggling through yet another reading lesson, ripped his book in half, hurled it across the room and yelled, “I hate reading!” That moment still haunts me ...

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

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 ...

Aishwarya Raji, a medical doctor and mom from India who read some of my Psychology Today posts on baby/toddler reading, reached out to me. Her story highlights four science-based lessons for teaching ...

Between curriculum changes and technological advances, schools today no longer teach kids these 11 old-fashioned lessons.