What to know SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Maria Murray is a proud bookworm. When she was a kid, she would frequent the local ...

Over the past decade, a majority of states have passed new “science of reading” laws or implemented policies that emphasize phonics in classrooms. Yet the 2024 results of an important national test, ...

In classrooms across the country, teachers are rethinking how students build reading comprehension — not just how they decode words, but how they make meaning from text. That shift is part of a larger ...

To enhance reading comprehension, you need to read.” Someone shared this comment on the guide I published yesterday on my ...

A renown cognitive psychologist is touting the importance of spelling for reading achievement. In his highly regarded new book, Raising Kids Who Read [1], cognitive psychologist Dan Willingham says ...

Imagine opening a book that knows exactly what you want to read. Not just the genre, but the pacing you prefer, the ...

In a world drowning in information, the real threat is not the burning of books, but the extinguishing of thought ...

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We hear it all the time: AI is changing the world. It’s an easy thing to say, but when the hype is this loud, it’s hard to tell what’s real and what’s just noise. Experts and opportunists start to ...

George Orwell once wrote that restating the obvious is the “first duty of intelligent people.” In that vein, allow us to restate the case for what may be literacy instruction’s richest but ...

Curate a reading list aligned with your leadership goals to fuel growth and innovation. Prioritizing reading as a leader fosters creativity, emotional intelligence and a culture of learning. For some ...

I emphatically agree with “Without Reading, There Is No Learning,” by Tim Donahue (Opinion guest essay, Feb. 25). On the first day of my freshman writing class last semester at the University of ...