On Monday morning at Garland R. Quarles Elementary School, teacher Marisol Rodriguez asked a small group of parents and ...

What's the word in District 66? Starting this school year, Westside Schools have launched a targeted effort to build a more consistent, higher level vocabulary among young students.That means in every ...

A new randomized control trial in Mississippi has found that a good kindergarten literacy program can boost disadvantaged students’ vocabulary in kindergarten by as much as an extra month of school.

A new study found that California schools got positive results from a targeted investment in the science of reading — even with the challenges of pandemic recovery. By Dana Goldstein To try to make up ...

Julie Hutcherson didn't sign up to be an English teacher. Usually she's all angles and fractions and complex numbers, but for 30 minutes every day, she gets wordy. Along with every other teacher at ...

Analyzing rates of target word acquisition and overall vocabulary development, this study finds that students learning English as a second language pick up general vocabulary more quickly and target ...

What’s in a word? Or more specifically, 30 million words? A child’s future. Leaders from the PNC Foundation, Skillman Foundation and Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation will unveil a $1.5-million, ...

Travaurus Smith's mother surprised him in November with the belated birthday gift he'd hounded her to buy - the latest edition of the "Call of Duty" video game series. The high school senior thanked ...