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 ...
Heather Miller, a first grade teacher in Austin, Texas, works with a small group of students in her classroom on reading skills. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers ...
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 ...
American students are failing to meet certain expectations on their reading skills due to school interruptions caused by the pandemic. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, kindergartners missed most of the ...
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Three mornings a week for the past several months, a Northeast Portland second grader named Jaden has left his classroom for a 30-minute session focused on taking words apart and putting them back ...
Just 50% of students across Washington state are reading at grade level, according to the state’s latest standardized test results. Literacy rates declined during the pandemic and have yet to rebound.
Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. California fourth graders trail the nation in reading, and half of its third graders, including two-thirds of Black students and 61% of ...
Project 75 is a reading initiative with an ambitious goal: to boost the percentage of third-graders in Jackson who pass the state assessment on the first attempt from 55% to 75%. Cormack presented his ...