Contrarians that we are, we know when we hear things that sound like “common wisdom,” we need to look just a little bit ...

Fourth graders in Atlanta Public Schools made significant progress in national math and reading tests. Now the district will expand its reading program to middle schools.

Fourth graders in Atlanta Public Schools made significant progress in national math and reading tests. Now the district will expand its reading program to middle schools.

"More than half of Massachusetts third-grade students are not proficient readers. Stop and take that in," write two education ...

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, ...

There is utility to be had in Bill Gates’s memoir of childhood, Source Code: My Beginnings (Knopf, Feb. 4), but there is also joy: the joy at marveling at genius coming into focus — confident, ...