Psychology Today

How to Teach Someone a Lesson

When I was a kid, I remember watching as a neighborhood boy was chased out of his house by his mother. She ran after him, shouting, “I’ll teach you to back-talk me!” I was confused. Surely, this boy ...
Education Week

How to Build Students’ Reading Stamina

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Visited recently by one of his former students, Minnesota teacher Eric Kalenze was ...
The New York Times

How to Teach Someone a Board Game (and Even Have Fun Doing It)

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Education Week

How the Largest School District Is Adjusting to the Science of Reading

The largest school system in the country enters its second year of an ambitious, multi-year journey to overhaul how it teaches children how to read this fall. Across New York City, schools have ...
PBS

Why more U.S. schools are embracing a new 'science of reading'

Move over "Dick and Jane." A different approach to teaching kids how to read is on the rise. For decades, two schools of thought have clashed on how to best teach children to read, with passionate ...
EdSource

Sharp divisions over how California’s aspiring teachers will be taught to teach reading

CLARIFICATION: The article was revised on April 24 to clarify that the Committee on Accreditation, by law, has the power to accredit programs. The Commission on Teacher Credentialing responds to ...
Los Angeles Times

Could phonics solve California’s reading crisis? Inside the push for sweeping changes

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 ...
The Hechinger Report

NAACP targets a new civil rights issue—reading

First grade teacher Emily VanDerhoff, who is also a member of the Fairfax County NAACP’s education committee, was incorporating phonics into her lessons before Fairfax County renewed its focus on how ...
Newsweek

Mom Thinks She’s About To Teach Bullied Kid Lesson—Learns Something Instead

A Florida mom set out to teach her daughter a life lesson but received heartwarming wisdom instead. Ana T (@anacf93) shared a clip on TikTok where her 5-year-old explained how two girls in her class ...
Star Tribune

Minnesota joins long list of states going 'back to the basics' to teach reading

The bulletin board in Krista Sorgatz's first-grade classroom at Wilshire Park Elementary is adorned with an array of paired letters, each representing a different sound. Illustrations of padlocks also ...
The New York Times

As Literacy Lags, Hochul Proposes Changing How Schools Teach Reading

New York has lost ground in reading performance. The governor is proposing changes to literacy education to address that. By Grace Ashford Reporting from Watervliet, N.Y. Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed on ...