A 10-hour course for educators creates a common language for teaching phonemic awareness across all grade levels.

Teaching 1st grade also means managing a lot of transitions—helping students move quickly and calmly from one activity to another, or giving them small “brain breaks” to move and stretch. At the ...

Think math is just about numbers and equations? Think again. Research analyzed 49 studies with 37,654 participants and ...

Mississippi is a state burdened by deep poverty, tightfisted public spending, and a punishing legacy of segregation. It ...

Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?

The more closely scientists listen to the brain during conversation, the more its activity patterns resemble the statistical ...

Each month, Dayton Daily News reporter Eileen McClory highlights local ideas that improve outcomes for students and teachers in the Dayton area.

Artificial intelligence is starting to do more than transcribe what we say. By learning to read the brain’s own electrical ...

Learning to read, unlike speaking, walking, or understanding the world around us, is not something humans do naturally.

Earlier this year, the National Assessment of Educational Progress released its annual report card, including reading scores ...

Scientists have engineered a protein able to record the incoming chemical signals of brain cells (as opposed to just their ...

Before a car crash in 2008 left her paralysed from the neck down, Nancy Smith enjoyed playing the piano. Years later, Smith started making music again, thanks to an implant that recorded and analysed ...