Reading is a simple yet powerful habit that boosts brain health and mental well-being. Experts say it reduces stress, ...

Curling up with a good book can reduce stress, increase creativity and boost empathy. A recent analysis of U.S. government ...

The film features a conversation between two individuals discussing the hobby of collecting words and their meanings. The dialogue emphasizes the importance of understanding word meanings to improve ...

Four states—Alabama, Louisiana, Massachusetts, and Mississippi—have shown that adopting more rigorous literacy standards and scientific approaches to reading instruction can help reverse the decline ...

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 ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Over the past ...

What barriers do students face when asked to read text and show their comprehension of it? This question was posed by an English/language arts teacher and educational consultant to a group of ...

For years, officials in the Fort Worth Independent School District used the same strategy to try to boost student achievement: Offer coaching and guidance to teachers and hope that, as they got better ...

As summer approaches, district leaders will spend part of their vacation strategizing how to improve reading and writing achievement. The news this year has remained grim: NAEP fourth-grade scores in ...

Books on the shelf at M.H. Moore Elementary School on Aug. 13, 2024. Amanda McCoy [email protected] In the Fort Worth Independent School District and across Texas, conversations about literacy ...