When the National Assessment of Educational Progress, often called the Nation’s Report Card, was released last year, the results were sobering. Despite increased funding streams and growing momentum ...

Are you getting everything you could from your early literacy data? Too often, early literacy results can flag which students are struggling, but don’t reveal the “why” or point to the way forward.

With support from the W.T. Grant Foundation, University of Delaware partners with the Delaware Department of Education to improve K-3 literacy outcomes Delaware’s commitment to enhancing literacy ...

From birth to age five is the most important part of development, but we might be falling behind in teaching language and comprehension to children. Early literacy sets kids down a path of success as ...

Improving literacy instruction is once again in fashion among America’s policy circles. Between 2019 and 2022, state legislatures passed more than 200 bills that sought to push and pull public schools ...

As Illinois rolls out a new law requiring early literacy screenings beginning Jan. 1, some educators question whether it will ...

I once believed that improving reading at a failing school could be a finite job. I thought it meant bringing in a new curriculum, showing teachers how to use it and then lingering long enough to ...

Ready Readers volunteers visit classrooms in low-income communities to read aloud to young children, which can help build early literacy skills in preparation for kindergarten. Studies show that ...

Pre-K teachers spend an average of only 2.5 percent of their day on numeracy skills. Credit: Philip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our ...

I will never forget the surprised look on one mom’s face during storytime when I dropped a tip—technically called an aside—about how rhyming helps babies differentiate sounds and prepares them for ...

Early literacy often dominates conversations around foundational learning in today’s educational system. However, despite the emphasis on STEM in later years, the importance of early numeracy in ...