Parents and grandparents eagerly waited in the entrance at Liberty Arts Magnet School on Tuesday morning to spend the lunch hour sharing a meal and a book with their children.

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 ...

MANCHESTER, MI – Wedged between shelves of colorful books and a row of filing cabinets in an annex outside Manchester’s Klager Elementary School, Melissa Yekulis found her “happy place.” She’s ...

Leeann Teynor retired from teaching, but didn't leave education. She picked up a pen and became a children's book author.

When Brian Floriani saw kids learning from photocopies, he founded Bernie’s Book Bank in honor of his dad, giving bags of ...

Reading novels puts students in community with complex ideas they can explore across weeks — in ways that simply cannot be recreated by skimming a two-sentence Instagram caption. Credit: Getty Images ...

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Early-elementary teachers work hard all year to support their students’ emerging reading skills. The payoff—gains in literacy progress—tends to come toward the end of the school year, just as it’s ...

As students continue to fall behind in reading proficiency in the American education system, some teachers are pleading with parents to help fix the problem. After the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers ...

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 ...

These uplifting, nonpartisan books about voting and how elections work are a fun, educational way to introduce kids to the political process Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE. She has ...