Literacy rates are tumbling as kids' attention spans dwindle. Families are scraping together funds to move schools or get tutors, driving a societal divide.
The preteen years are fraught with emotion and change, and a lot of us forget just how much we learn, encounter and confront ...
If my wife and I try a new TV show and neither of us likes it after the first episode or two, we abandon it and find something else. Why should books ... my reading—it forces an added level ...
For much of the past four decades, Just has worked for a school district that currently serves 8,640 students across 14 ...
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 ...
Governor Kim Reynolds and the Iowa Department of Education have announced a statewide investment of over $3.5 million to ...
For the past month, I have been reading the first ... Piece” books, which collect those serialized chapters, are in circulation. I knew none of this until my child started third grade.
We asked librarians from Round Rock, Dripping Springs and Austin, which new releases they are most looking forward to this ...
Suggested reading from ... very comfortable with the level of ambition I have for my books,” says the ubiquitous BBC talk show host, who calls “Frankie” his “first happy romance.” ...
Educators are often asked “how do you know that your teaching is working?” One of my favorite stories involves a teacher who ...
The books in the book packs are part of the curriculum based on the science of reading which, put simply, focuses on teaching kids to sound out parts of words and then putting them together to learn ...