U.S. reading scores have dropped for a decade, with most states stagnating—signaling a long-running "reading recession." ...

For many children, the transition from learning to read to reading to learn is a crucial and sometimes nerve-wracking milestone. Reading aloud in class is intended to foster fluency and confidence, ...

Lists of the books included in curricula show middle school students are expected to read four to seven books in a school year.

Remember those devastating learning losses that began during the pandemic? Turns out, they began years before COVID-19. Some ...

Researchers explored how manual and keyboard practice influenced children's abilities in their reading and writing learning process. 5-year-olds were taught an artificial alphabet using different ...

Every summer, something quietly happens to young readers. School lets out, routines shift and before long, the books get ...

Developed in partnership with Learning Heroes, a national nonprofit focused on building school-home partnerships, the ...

Why is a book like this needed? A devastatingly large number of people in America cannot read as well as they need to for success in life. Large numbers of school-age children, including children from ...

Early childhood is a critical period for brain development, which is important for boosting cognition and mental well-being. Good brain health at this age is directly linked to better mental heath, ...

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 ...

The Bright Horizons Foundation for Children is partnering with Hazel’s House of Hope to build Bright Spaces, a safe and ...