Phonemic awareness refers to the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds—also known as phonemes—in spoken words. This skill is foundational for reading and writing, as it helps ...

This corrective to our habitual emphasis on competition had me writing ‘wow’ in the margins again and again When Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, the Industrial Revolution ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. No story has caught the imagination of education reformers this decade quite like the “Mississippi miracle.” ...

Book reading in schools has fallen off severely and, in many classrooms, nearly disappeared, but our model legislation, called the BOOKS Act, can ensure that kids start reading full books again, ...

When I think back on my childhood, my happiest memories aren't tied to things I owned. They're about the freedom of growing up in a small Ohio town where everyone knew your name and kids ran in packs.

This story was produced by the Oregon Journalism Project, a nonprofit newsroom covering the state. Earlier this year, the National Assessment of Educational Progress released its annual report card, ...

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This month's stock market losses won't be the last of the bloodletting, according to Raymond James. Stocks are on pace to close out a brutal month. Although November is usually a seasonally strong ...

After poring over recordings from sperm whales in the Caribbean, UC Berkeley linguist Gasper Begus had an unlikely breakthrough. According to a new study from Begus and his colleagues with Project ...

LONDON, 30 October 2025 – The ‘literacy crisis’ is complex, but two things are clear: some teachers lack confidence in teaching literacy effectively and some children are not learning foundational ...