I am a mom of a child who has been misunderstood and unsupported in our public school system for more than a decade. I sent my child off to kindergarten full of excitement. Soon into his school days, ...

As a parent and a strong believer in the power of education to transform lives, one of the biggest reasons I wanted to serve as a state representative was to make a difference in the lives of ...

This story features Beeline Reader for enhanced readability. Click to turn the feature on or off. Learn more about this technology here. Barbara McAuliffe, an expert in helping struggling readers, has ...

November marks National Family Literacy Month, a fitting occasion as concern about reading instruction in U.S. schools goes from a simmer to a boil. For years, parents and educators around the country ...

When districts embrace teaching brain words systematically and explicitly, following a spiraling curriculum much like Webster proposed, we can save legions of developmentally normal kids from reading ...

A two-story package this weekend talks about dyslexia and what schools are and are not doing to address it. Education reporter Kristen Taketa shares some of what she learned while reporting on ...

A two-story package this weekend talks about dyslexia and what schools are and are not doing to address it. Education reporter Kristen Taketa shares some of what she learned while reporting on ...

Teaching spelling is important. It’s well-established that good readers can spell but almost all poor readers struggle with spelling (Gentry & Ouellette, 2019). Teaching handwriting is important.

A learning disorder that can impact a child’s ability to read or interpret words, letters, and other symbols—but that doesn’t affect general intelligence—dyslexia often goes unnoticed until a student ...

At an event to promote his new memoir, the California Democrat revealed that he “cannot read a speech” and feels he hasn’t overcome dyslexia.

In first grade, Lynn Gaskell's daughter was behind in reading. When Rileigh, now 13, tried to read aloud, she added extra syllables to words and stumbled through pages. Rileigh’s school evaluated her ...