Seventy-one years ago, I walked into my Chapman School fourth-grade classroom and met the most consequential teacher I would ever have, Mrs. Ganno. She soon realized I was a struggling reader and ...
As Illinois rolls out a new law requiring early literacy screenings beginning Jan. 1, some educators question whether it will ...
The remote temple of Hathor at Serabit al-Khadim was more than a mine and a sanctuary—it was a crucible of civilization. Here, amidst the sacred turquoise mines that funded pharaohs from the Great ...
Education programs at some of Ohio’s largest colleges and universities have not complied with a new state requirement to only ...
Restoring literacy demands we treat reading as more than a skill, but as a gateway to wisdom and understanding.
The sounding-out of the word requires children to guess what that word might be – and might mean – based on their knowledge ...
For more than a century, parents and teachers have been engaged in “reading wars” between those who favor phonics (teaching ...
Dominic Wyse currently receives funding from the Helen Hamlyn Trust and The Welsh Government. Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach ...
I’m a letter writer. Like my mother before me and her mother before her, I regularly put pen to paper. I know this makes me unusual: most Americans haven't written a personal letter in years. The ...
Warren Buffett delivered a letter to Berkshire Hathaway investors on Monday, with the missive likely marking his last official message before he hangs up his hat as chairman and CEO of the ...
It was a gift that took eighteen years to make and no more than a few minutes to give. Was the giving momentous enough? Did my son, Hudson, love it with every molecule in his body? Did I feel it had ...