Across the country, teachers are sounding the alarm about a new kind of gap in the classroom: kids who can code on a tablet ...

They cannot apply inference; they cannot process questions that are longer than a sentence. They cannot connect cause and ...

A 2nd-grade teacher with 14 years of experience under her belt turned to Reddit to describe how, in recent years, she's noticed a sharp decline in independence among her students. In fact, she said ...

Helping students learn to read is usually the job of early elementary educators. But teachers of older children—who report that nearly half of their students have difficulty reading—say they need more ...

January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. The caller had personal knowledge that a recently deceased former employee of the ...

Phonics gets more attention in elementary English/language arts classrooms than other core foundational reading skills, like fluency. More generally, states’ new reading laws emphasizing foundational ...