Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the past few years, the Philadelphia School District has used a homegrown curriculum created by Philadelphia teachers. This ...

American writing instruction has always involved some level of torture. What happens when technology makes it easy?

Kudos to Education Week for rolling out a collection of articles on elementary writing instruction, a vital area of literacy development that fails to get the attention it deserves. As EdWeek’s ...

H.W. Smith students, left to right, Kaymani Harris, De'Nya "Lucy" Chambers and Trey Hunter pose with Samantha Howard, a literacy tutor with the Literacy Corps program. Howard is a junior at SU.

EdSource · How a California professor once coded secrets in music (rebroadcast) We have all been reading the news about disappointing literacy rates in California, which have been exacerbated by the ...

There were two huge developments in the literacy world early this year. First, the emergence of a phonics program that could impact outcomes “dramatically.” Gains for 1 st graders from the ...

March is National Reading Month, a celebration that encourages reading for all ages and promotes reading as a key feature for learning, social, and professional development. As we celebrate the value ...

Every Monday and Wednesday for the past year, Dorise Adams and Mary Anne Carr have met in a classroom at United Methodist Church to achieve their singular goal: to receive their high school diplomas.

Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers ...

DETROIT (WXYZ) — The Detroit Lions hosted their first One Pride Literacy Fest on Tuesday, bringing together dozens of third graders for a day of reading and writing ...