When Ahmed arrived in the United States from Somalia seven years ago, he’d never been to school. He could read the Quran in Somali, but he didn’t know a word of English or even how to read the ...

Handwriting notes in class might seem like an anachronism as smartphones and other digital technology subsume every aspect of learning across schools and universities. But a steady stream of research ...

One in four young adults across the U.S. is functionally illiterate – yet more than half earned high school diplomas, ...

Corrected, May 23, 2024: An earlier version of this article erroneously presented synthetic phonics and the science of reading as synonymous terms. The headline and body copy have been updated to ...

In most adults, learning and thinking plateau and then begin to decline after age 30 or 40. People start to perform worse in tests of cognitive abilities such as processing speed, the rate at which ...

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A group of Aboriginal adults in Darwin have taken the first step on a transformative learning journey, as Saltbush Social ...

Oxford University Press report shows 90% of students gained new skills using AI, but over half worry it’s making them less ...

Aleysha Ortiz sued her Connecticut school district for allegedly failing to address her learning disabilities. She was illiterate when she graduated, she said. Aleysha Ortiz was a high school ...

For Lisa Parry, a 12th-grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT ‒ which serves up fresh ideas. Before her students ...

Learning to read fluently requires hundreds of hours of practice. Some children happily sit and read for hours, but others (especially those with ADHD or dyslexia) cannot. Parents and teachers often ...