A couple of years ago, five faculty members at Harvard University published an intriguing study. They had run an experiment in an introductory undergraduate physics course to figure out why active ...

Congress ended funding for Reading First in 2009. The more recent science of reading movement, though, has been propelled by ...

While high-quality literacy instruction has remained a cornerstone of education leaders’ priorities, this year, the science of reading has dominated classrooms and discussions around instructional ...

While this fall marks my 38 th year in education, it has been 28 years since I was a classroom teacher. Teaching elementary school was the hardest job I ever had, but there are many parts of the role ...

In their efforts to regulate how teachers can discuss issues of politics and identity in the classroom, Republican state legislators have so far focused mainly on social studies and history ...

Part personal narrative, part primer on the science of memory, and part exploration of the implications of cutting-edge brain ...

A kindergarten student raises her hand during a reading lesson in Jennifer Lee’s class at Southwest Primary School in Hickory, N.C. Credit: Ariel Gilreath for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report ...

One of the twin goals of The Next 30 Years is to reimagine education reform as a practice-driven enterprise—less about pulling policy levers and more about what happens between teachers and students ...

Any project, supported or not by a committee, that is currently being worked on or is considered active, and will have an end date. The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine will ...

How we teach children to read has been a contentious issue in the United States for decades, a debate that has "occasionally grown so vicious it's been dubbed the Reading Wars," Vox reported. On one ...

Growing up near the World Bank’s agricultural development project in Anyigba (present day Kogi State, Nigeria), Mark Akubo and his friends would visit the aerodrome to watch light planes take off and ...

WASHINGTON — The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have launched the Collaborative for Advancing Science Teaching and Learning in K-12 (CASTL-K12), a new activity that will ...