To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

This article was originally published in Stateline. As states rush to address falling literacy scores, a new kind of education debate in state legislatures is taking hold: not whether reading ...

If you’re a parent of a young reader, would you rather start off in Manhattan or Mississippi? The answer may surprise you. Today, fourth-grade students in Mississippi read almost a full school year ...

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...

What should a young reader do when they come to a word they don’t know? It’s the most basic hurdle in reading, and the strategies a teacher gives can make the difference in a student’s literacy ...

Instilling a life-long love of reading in children, particularly through my work on “Reading Rainbow,” remains one of the greatest honors and joys of my career. And yet, after years as a literacy ...

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