Mr. Thompson calls this a “thinning of thought”: A slow erosion of our collective ability to hold complex ideas in mind, ...

For many, the “science of reading” has become synonymous with phonics instruction. Politicians on both sides of the aisle have said the movement to align reading instruction with what the research ...

There are many sounds in English that don’t exist in Spanish, and vice versa. Take the sound the letter “z” makes in English, or the rolled “r” in Spanish. In the Southside independent school district ...

The University of Kansas has been chosen to run one of seven centers across the state that will help both teachers and parents learn how to help children read better. Now, KU has to figure out exactly ...

Parents and teachers generally agree: Literacy is one of the cornerstones of educational fairness and crucial for lifelong success. Yet, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress ...

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. Nearly a half ...

Editor’s note: This essay is an entry in Fordham’s 2025 Wonkathon, which asked contributors to answer this question: “What needs to happen next—at the state, district, and school levels—for the ...

Because animals have a limited capability of understanding human language, they cannot “read” the way humans do.

This initiative, backed by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, has more than $100 million allocated to purchasing new curriculum, training teachers, and paying literacy coaches. Both local school employees and the ...

In 2024, my niece Caroline received a Ph.D. in gravitational-wave physics. Her research interests include “the impact of model inaccuracies on biases in parameters recovered from gravitational wave ...

Humans, it turns out, are better than current AI models at describing and interpreting social interactions in a moving scene—skills necessary for self-driving cars, assistive robots, and other ...