Third-grade co-teacher Rebecca Leach helps pupils select the best words for a sentence at Lima’s Heritage Elementary on Tuesday. LIMA — John Parent sat in the kindergarten classroom in wonderment as ...

The largest school system in the country enters its second year of an ambitious, multi-year journey to overhaul how it teaches children how to read this fall. Across New York City, schools have ...

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 ...

The goal is to make the reading scores on the National Association of Educational Progress — sometimes referred to as “the nation’s report card” — go from near the bottom to within the country’s top ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Inside a classroom in St. Charles Parish, a group of first graders sit around their teacher as she points to an easel with a large piece of paper titled “READING.” Under it, six steps lay out how to ...

$49 million in funding for a Wisconsin reading initiative is stalled in a political battle between Democrats and Republicans. The funding was approved in 2023 to support the "science of reading" ...

Until a couple of years ago, Lucy Calkins was, to many American teachers and parents, a minor deity. Thousands of U.S. schools used her curriculum, called Units of Study, to teach children to read and ...

The coalition seeks private and state funding, potentially a disputed $49 million in state funds. Leaders from MPS, charter and voucher schools are collaborating, though teacher union representation ...

An oft-cited phrase is that students “learn to read, then read to learn.” It’s time to put that phrase to bed. Students do need to learn the fundamentals of reading in the early grades, including ...

Maria Murray founded The Reading League at her kitchen table out of her frustration with how children were being taught to read — and how, as a college professor, she was training teachers to do it.