A new study reveals how literacy fundamentally rewires the human mind, sharpening memory, focus, and face recognition.

Lately, I have worked with teachers to develop an approach for explicit foundational skills in phonics instruction as well as ...

An 18th-century archaeological dig uncovered a library of intact but charred scrolls. Their contents have been unreadable ...

A team of historians, scientists and engineers has developed a portable X-ray scanner to study 4,000-year-old letters encased ...

New teachers in particular may benefit from trying this four-part framework for guiding students to improve their writing.

Although I teach and edit fiction, I still didn’t think it would ever happen—that an AI-generated or AI-assisted short story would win a major contest. Then came Jamir Nazir’s “The Serpent in the ...

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. Walk into an early elementary classroom these days and you’ll likely see strong phonics instruction in ...

All of the most popular artificial intelligence chatbots have the ability to upload and summarize documents, from legal contracts to an entire book. The tech promises to give you a kind of ...

AI writing is good, but it's not perfect. Watch out for these obvious tells. I’ve been writing about consumer technology and video games for more than a decade at a variety of publications, including ...

A student must be able to decode before they can truly build reading fluency or comprehension. That’s not a preference. It’s how reading works. Yet in IEP meetings, I often see teams rush toward ...

For as long as I’ve been attending IEP meetings, one thing continues to surprise me: teams will push ahead to grade-level reading goals even when a child has not mastered the foundation. Basic reading ...