Using concepts students are already familiar with — like how bottles vibrate — can serve as a helpful anchor for more complex topics.

They say the success of the move hinges on stronger pedagogy, better-trained teachers and a well-structured syllabus.

When students learn to read in the early elementary years, developing phonemic awareness, decoding skills, and blending typically take priority. Another essential component of fluent reading, however, ...

Stanford Professor Rebecca Silverman discusses a transformative movement backed by research that is changing literacy ...

Anand Mahindra shared a viral video of a physics teacher creatively explaining Bernoulli’s principle using a plastic bag, saying such animated teaching could have made science more exciting in school.

Congress ended funding for Reading First in 2009. The more recent science of reading movement, though, has been propelled by state-level legislation. Which States Have Passed 'Science of Reading' Laws ...

I don’t know whether my life would have turned out differently if I had more access to science at an early age. Nevertheless, ...

Kentucky lawmakers are again seeking to ban 'three-cueing,' a reading instruction method, with the goal of shifting to a Science of Reading approach.

In Maryland, a district's decade of effort to train more than 4,000 educators on how the brain learns best—so they can apply cognitive science in their own classrooms—begins to pay off.

Education groups led by the nation’s main membership organization for teacher colleges are calling for a large congressional investment in overhauling and rebuilding federal support for ...

Growing up in Surigao del Sur in Mindanao, young Zaldy Alima had his sights set on becoming a medical doctor, only for the chance to wear a white coat. However, that all changed when he took high ...

According to the last round of PIRLS testing, English children are the best readers in the western world. On the most recent ...