One of my favorite parts of being an English professor has always been the sight of students poring over great works of literature and marking up the pages. Until recently, whether we were dissecting ...

With the recent release of the National Assessment of Educational Progress results, some may be tempted to make sweeping curricular changes or bemoan the state of education after seeing a decline in ...

People have nightmares of AI-powered killing machines turning our world into a robotic dystopia. But a less-bloody yet equally striking transformation is already under way — one in which ...

But a message is coming from the other direction too. Those who revere and often romanticise printed books argue that we need to slow down. They warn that the digital age has made us shallow readers ...

Natalia Kucirkova receives funding as a KTP Associate. She is affiliated with The Open University and Booktrust. A series of binary discussions has been plaguing early reading instruction for quite ...

Educators and researchers are looking to update one of the oldest, most popular—and at times one of the most controversial—methods of targeting instruction: the elementary reading circle. Grouping ...

From hearing lullabies to the sing-song lilt of a parent’s voice, babies form strong connections with their caregivers through sound and song. Think about the way we instinctively bounce or rock fussy ...

It was Harry Potter — or, actually, his buddy Hermione Granger — who made my 6-year-old granddaughter enthusiastic about learning to read. She was reasonably interested in reading before that, though ...