Post and Courier

Kids horse around while learning reading skills at Horse Powered Reading Event

The Horse Powered Reading event at the Aiken County Public Library brought together kids and miniature horses to teach reading skills. The LEARN Aiken Foundation organized the event to promote ...

A Maine educator didn’t have a curriculum to teach a foundational reading skill. So she created one

In Raymond Elementary School’s pre-kindergarten classroom, boys and girls huddled together on a rug with their teacher to learn a foundational skill for reading and spelling: how to pull apart and put ...
Education Week

Is the ‘Science of Reading’ Becoming Too Much of a Good Thing?

Across the country, teachers are navigating the impact of the “science of reading” laws, which mandate using curricula and methods deemed consistent with scientific findings about reading and ...
The New York Times

American Children’s Reading Skills Reach New Lows

With little post-pandemic recovery, experts wonder if screen time and school absence are among the causes. By Dana Goldstein In the latest release of federal test scores, educators had hoped to see ...
Pensacola News Journal

Y Reads takes struggling kids from 'learning to read' to 'reading to learn'

Over 500 Escambia County public school students have been enrolled in YMCA Reads! Program is currently offered at seven ECPS elementary schools and helps struggling readers catch back up with their ...
Psychology Today

Thought Experiment: Is Reading Learning?

Is reading learning? Are the higher cognitive aspects of reading really just learning and concentration? Are the cognitive problems caused by brain injury solely learning issues and not specifically ...
EdSurge

Reading Skills Are in Sharp Decline. Rescuing Them Won't be Easy.

BROWNSVILLE, Texas — It’s nearly 5 p.m. on a Friday, and Dolores S. Perez is hard at work in the Brownsville Public Library. She’s also one of the people having the most fun. Parsing education data ...