Using picture books as mentor texts is the perfect way to teach verbal, dramatic, and situational irony to middle school students.

There’s this focus on K-3 without a lot of resources dedicated to helping the kids in secondary school who fell through the ...

Texas public schools could soon be required to teach biblical passages in English classes, according to a draft proposal ...

Comstock Park — It was time for a video in Stoney Creek Elementary teacher Grace Olsson’s first-grade class, but students ...

If you read a book in 2025—just one book—you belong to an endangered species. Like honeybees and red wolves, the population of American readers, Lector americanus, has been declining for decades. The ...

Louis Provis says there needs to be systemic change in how schools think about boys’ reading. Jacqueline Robson recalls a reading initiative that left students searching for more Lee Child is right ...

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This story was produced by the Oregon Journalism Project, a nonprofit newsroom covering the state. Earlier this year, the National Assessment of Educational Progress released its annual report card, ...

Although we have replaced our jack-o-lanterns and skeletons with evergreen wreaths and festive lights, the specter of masked Halloween figures continues to haunt our community. In my leafy suburb just ...

You can’t make this up. Juelz Santana set off a wave of conversation during a recent appearance on the No Funny Sht podcast when he suggested that young people should be taught financial literacy and ...

Before Sebastian Castillo cracks open a book on the bus, he has an intrusive thought: Should he tap the stranger next to him on the shoulder and clarify that yes, he’s starting this book on Page 1, ...

First-grader Mary Greer shows her work during a phonics-based reading lesson at Hunt Valley Elementary School in Springfield, Virginia. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post) The “reading wars” that ...