The instructional coach revamped how young kids pull apart and put together letter sounds to form words. Her program is now being piloted in six Maine school districts.

Kathy French, the executive director of AR Kids Read (pronounced "Our Kids Read"), combines traits not often found together. She's effusive and analytical, steady and adventurous. She radiates an easy ...

When a ten-year-old calls from a sleepover and says, “Did we feed the dog?” that sentence might sound mundane. But in some ...

As an Orton-Gillingham-certified instructor, I support the methodology, which calls for an explicit, systematic, cumulative, direct, and sequential approach to reading instruction that emphasizes ...

The absence of war. Quiet time after the kids go to bed. Surf hitting sand at the beach. The word evokes multiple moods and meanings. A couple of weeks ago, it made headlines as Oxford University ...

At the end of winter break at a West St. Paul, Minnesota, elementary school, more than 50 students did not return to class. At the time, federal immigration agents were conducting military-style ...

Rahm Emanuel is spot on in his op-ed, “The ‘Mississippi Marathon’ Is Teaching Kids to Read” (Jan. 22).I began school in 1960 and learned how to read through phonics. In the 1980s when I started my ...

A handmade sign reading “Bring Liam Home” is posted on a chain-link fence outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on Thursday. When it comes to staying informed in Minnesota, ...

Numerous factors affect how fast we age, from the environment down to our DNA. Even the number of children you have, and when you have them, can alter the aging process and lifespan, a new study finds ...

The answer is: not quite. Children learn thousands of words, and they do it rapidly and flexibly. Even at 18 months, children don't just match a word to whatever they see at the moment. They can ...

The days of washing your kid’s mouth out with soap because they said a curse word appear to be on the wane—at least according to the results of a new national poll, which indicates most are pretty ...

Imagine Max, a well-trained border collie, manages to ignore a squirrel in the park when his owner tells him to sit. His owner says, “Max, stop chasing that squirrel and sit down,” and Max obeys. Can ...