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Literacy

Posted inEarly Education

Universal prekindergarten is coming to California — bumpy rollout and all

Avatar photo by Kate Rix March 16, 2024March 15, 2024

OAKLAND, Calif. — Teacher Yasmin Kudrolli sat on a low chair and lit a candle to start the morning meeting in her prekindergarten classroom in Oakland. Speaking quietly to her 4-year-old students, she picked one boy from the group to count his classmates: 22. This story also appeared in The Washington Post California mandates one […]

Posted inEarly Education

Free child care exists in America — if you cross paths with the right philanthropist

Avatar photo by Jackie Mader March 7, 2024March 12, 2024
Posted inOpinion

OPINION: Why segregation and racial gaps in education persist 70 years after the end of legal segregation

by Alexandra Filindra December 4, 2023May 9, 2024
Posted inThe South

For many Mississippi students, summer meant one last chance to be promoted to fourth grade

by Alivia Welch August 14, 2023August 21, 2023
Posted inElementary to High School

Nixed textbooks, bans on faulty methods: How reading instruction is changing

by Emily Hanford May 18, 2023May 18, 2023
Posted inThe South

Tennessee law could hold back thousands of third graders in bid to help kids recover from the pandemic

Avatar photo by Ariel Gilreath April 7, 2023May 16, 2024
Posted inOpinion

TEACHER VOICES: Help may finally be on the way for struggling readers

by Megan Faughnan and Jessica Boisen February 13, 2023February 9, 2023
Posted inRace and Equity

While white students get specialists, struggling Black and Latino readers often get left on their own

Avatar photo by Sarah Carr December 19, 2022December 20, 2022
Posted inOpinion

OPINION: Children today are facing a mental health crisis. Smartphones are making it worse

by Jim Winston June 29, 2022June 27, 2022
Posted inSolutions

Weighing the best strategies for reading intervention

by Caralee Adams April 18, 2022April 22, 2022

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