How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Macabre

I was terrified of the Old Elephant King in “The Story of Babar.” My daughter was freaked out by “The Very Hungry Caterpillar ...
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RELEASE: How States Can Address Low Reading Proficiency for Fourth Graders

Washington, D.C. — National reading performance trends reveal that students’ reading scores have been steadily declining over the past decade and steepened further in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic ...
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How Changes to Fourth-Grade Reading Standards and Research-Backed Approaches Can Improve Reading Achievement

Alabama, Louisiana, Massachusetts, and Mississippi—have shown that adopting more rigorous literacy standards and scientific ...

Even before they can read, young children are visualizing letters and other objects with the same strategies adults use

Recent research shows that young children typically manipulate and rotate entire objects in their minds to understand ...