The UFLI reading curriculum is already used in McLean County school districts, including District 87 and Heyworth.

An elementary school in Ohio has some of the best young readers in the nation. How they did it—and how a new law put it all at risk.

In 2024, The 74 looked for school districts that were doing an exceptional job of teaching kids to read. One of the places we ...

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

What should an elementary reading block look like? For such a common part of the school day, it’s surprising to find that there’s no one right answer. More than 40 states have passed legislation ...

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 ...

Cody Beck reads a book that was assigned by his teacher at Grenada Middle School. Since April, Cody has been on a “homebound” program due to behavior, where he does his work at home and meets with a ...

Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...

As Gov. Tina Kotek seeks her second term in office, she has staked a hefty part of her educational legacy on ensuring that Oregon schools help many more of the state’s youngest students learn to read ...