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US schools are going all in on phonics, but research shows that approach won’t work for every child. A blended literacy ...
With summer vacation on the horizon–along with more competing stimuli–experts share tips for how to make reading more of a ...
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A mother "irate" over a sixth grade lesson showed up at an Indianapolis grade school with a firearm and sent a teacher ...
Six out of every seven children in the UK's most deprived neighbourhoods are living in poverty, worrying new government data has revealed. In the Newport ward of Middlesbrough, six out of every ...
The professional golfer's wife and children joined him at the Masters' annual Par 3 Contest Nasha Smith is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her words ...
Mobile, Ala. -(WKRG)- The time to plan for summer camp for your children is either here or fast approaching. And one approach to summer camp is mixing the arts with education in the Literacy ...
Growing up in Georgia, I was certain I wanted to have six kids. I was 13 when my first niece was born, and I helped take care of her. Now I feel like maybe I don't want to have kids and just be ...
cutting off a funding source that helped pay for reading programs, free summer meals for kids and internet access at branches across the state. The grant was cut midway through the 2024-25 fiscal ...
Stuck with distance learning as they began grade school, the kids who are now finishing elementary school were the ones most disrupted by COVID, with alarming delays in their reading ability.