Amid a nationwide decline in literacy, teachers across Pennsylvania — including educators in Northeastern Pennsylvania —  are ...

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is trying to increase scores on the DIBELS exam, a standardized test that measures early literacy skills for students in kindergarten through third grade. One school is ...

Half of the students in Chambersburg Area School District cannot read by the end of third grade. The district is shifting from "balanced literacy" to "structured literacy," which focuses on phonics. A ...

On a recent afternoon at Paradise Canyon Elementary, students sat on colored dots on the floor, ready to begin an activity called the Big Word Challenge. Their kindergarten teacher, Michelle Bryner, ...

The educators at J.B. Nachman Elementary School knew they had to work fast. Several students at the Alexandria school posted low reading scores last spring, putting them at risk of having to repeat ...

In early literacy, the goal is simple but urgent: Help students become independent readers and writers. Every instructional decision we make either moves them closer to that goal or keeps them ...

VS Code forks are diverging rapidly, not just in features, but in how they structure AI-assisted development workflows. Cursor emphasizes speed and visual polish, Windsurf leans toward dynamic ...

What was one of your favorite books in elementary school? One of mine was “Charlotte’s Web” by E.B. White. I’m sure many of us have memories of reading that book for the first time, or sharing it with ...

Diamond, a third grader in Jefferson Parish, does a timed reading exercise with her summer school teacher, Emily Gurtner. Emily Gurtner sits at a small table in the corner of her third-grade classroom ...

Nearly a quarter of Louisiana third graders are ending the school year far behind in reading, the state Education Department said Thursday. Under a new state law, some of those students will have to ...

More than half of Louisiana children from poor families start kindergarten without basic reading skills — and most fail to catch up by third grade, a critical year for literacy development, according ...

After years of advocacy, Colorado families may finally see statewide dyslexia screening.Under the bill, dyslexia screening would begin in kindergarten and continue through third grade. Driven by years ...