For Lisa Parry, a 12th-grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT ‒ which serves up fresh ideas. Before her students ...
Children today are growing up surrounded by technology. So it is easy to assume they will be able to write effectively using a keyboard. But our research suggests this is not necessarily true. We need ...
Joshua McGoun, a K-12 public-school teacher in Frederick, Maryland, first noticed a change in his students about 10 years ago. They began to struggle with focus. Increasingly, younger kids were not ...
Corrected, May 23, 2024: An earlier version of this article erroneously presented synthetic phonics and the science of reading as synonymous terms. The headline and body copy have been updated to ...
To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...
Through the New India Literacy Programme (NILP), lakhs of adults in Tamil Nadu, from daily wagers to guest workers, are going back to ‘school’ to learn to gain life skills. There are more than 30,000 ...