Have you ever read a newspaper article or Time magazine piece from the 1940s and thought to yourself, “Wow, this article is so intelligently written. The writing in modern mags and papers seems dumbed ...
Years ago, I coached my 8-year-old son’s basketball team. A few games into the season, a parent berated me for not winning every game. I shared that I had two primary goals (and neither was piling up ...
After switching its elementary reading curriculum to one aligned with the science of reading, Denver Public Schools is celebrating an increase in the percentage of kindergarten through third grade ...
Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once children learned how to read words, no one taught them how to make sense of the ...
This is the seventh in an occasional series on the dramatic national push to revamp how reading is being taught in the earliest grades. This EdSource special report examines the state of early reading ...
The disquieting side effect of our increasingly detailed longitudinal studies of students is we keep finding warning signs of a future graduation derailment earlier and earlier in a child’s school ...
Only about half of all students in grades 3 through 8 scored proficient in English Language Arts— a drop from about 56% the year before. Scores for third graders dropped 14 points, with just 44% ...