What actually happens inside the brain when learning works? Drawing on neuroscience, this breakdown of Stanislas Dehaene’s ...

Until a couple of years ago, Lucy Calkins was, to many American teachers and parents, a minor deity. Thousands of U.S. schools used her curriculum, called Units of Study, to teach children to read and ...

Kaiden was in tears. My first-grade student, struggling through yet another reading lesson, ripped his book in half, hurled it across the room and yelled, “I hate reading!” That moment still haunts me ...

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 ...

Between curriculum changes and technological advances, schools today no longer teach kids these 11 old-fashioned lessons.

Aishwarya Raji, a medical doctor and mom from India who read some of my Psychology Today posts on baby/toddler reading, reached out to me. Her story highlights four science-based lessons for teaching ...