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 ...

Seeing a child curled up with a book as they independently learn to read the words and find the meaning in a story is a heartwarming image. We have been taught that learning to read is akin to ...

Joshua McGoun, a K-12 public-school teacher in Frederick, Maryland, first noticed a change in his students about 10 years ago. They began to struggle with focus. Increasingly, younger kids were not ...

My 4-year-old nestled beside me as I swam through the sea of tabs on my laptop. My email tab popped up, and “Welcome, Mi” flashed at the top of the screen. My eyebrows furrowed, wondering why my ...

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 ...

I’ve spent much of my life identifying as a reader. Books hold a special place in my heart, and there are few things I ...

Kateřina Chládková has received external funding from the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Science Foundation, and the Czech Ministry of Education. She consults for and co-develops the Mooveez ...