Education Week

These Teachers Have Their Students Read Multiple Novels a Year. How They Do It

Exactly how much reading of whole books—especially novels—students should be doing is a contested topic, with no clear ...
Seacoastonline

Maine finally has a plan to turn around math and reading skills. Here’s what’s in it.

After years of declining test scores, the Maine Department of Education is introducing a plan to bolster math and literacy ...
Los Angeles Times

Parents, chill: Why you don’t need to teach your 3-year-old to read

Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...
Boise State University

Center for Teaching and Learning to host ‘Getting your students to do the reading’ workshop

Join the Center for Teaching and Learning for lunch and a talk about strategies to overcome that perennial challenge: getting students to do the reading. Jennifer Black of the Department of English ...
Education Week

Districts Using ‘High-Quality’ Reading Curricula Still Supplement With Other Materials. Why?

As the “science of reading” movement has grown, more districts are moving away from reading programs featuring practices that aren’t supported by research, and toward programs that are rated highly by ...
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Parenting: Some children memorize by listening, while others memorize by reading; Expert tells the right way to teach..

Samrat feels very proud that whatever his daughter Suhani hears, she remembers it immediately. But every time in PTM, Suhani's mother is told that Suhani answers every question in the class, but her ...