Educators are often asked “how do you know that your teaching is working?” One of my favorite stories involves a teacher who ...

Simple words like "the" and "of" are everywhere, but don't follow regular phonics patterns. How should teachers approach them?

These books endure because their insights are as relevant today as when they were first written. Here are six that I find myself referring back to and referring others to, over and over again.

The preteen years are fraught with emotion and change, and a lot of us forget just how much we learn, encounter and confront ...

Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles — fiction and nonfiction — to consider for your January reading list.

If you’ve got a gift card for your local independent bookstore or are planning your requests from the library, we’re here to help.

Horowitch, not long out of college herself, hypothesized that these young people might be perfectly capable of reading books ... But because of grade inflation and also the pressure to get ...

And it’s still—I just remember reading it for the first ... grade, and I remember my English teacher had turned it into a sort of big, anticipated event that we would be reading this book ...

Author Gloria L. Huang helps demystify the magic of creating a middle-grade novel by explaining the different steps that ...

Perhaps every kid’s first bedtime story, the 1947 classic Goodnight Moon ... Chock-full of literary references and fun ...

Alan Spears, NPCA’s senior director of cultural resources, offers a winter reading list on people and places that shaped our ...