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The Alaska Reads Act requires literacy screenings and help for struggling students, and its implementation is already visible in Anchorage.

Good Friday morning. In today’s edition of Your Daily Phil, we report on a Holocaust education play, a new effort by the Anti-Defamation League to pressure university presidents to probe an anti-Israel college group and the fanfare-less opening of the National Library of Israel. We...

In 2015, Johnston schools counted just 113 multilingual learners (MLL) in the district. Eight years later, that number has more than doubled, to 270 MLL students in 2023, and that number continues to …

Kim Robertson discusses the impact of too much screen time for children and teens

Wyoming Superintendent of Public Instruction Megan Degenfelder says Oregon is going down a “road to failure” by not requiring students demonstrate mastery of reading, writing and math to graduate from high school.

The Department of Disabilities and Psychoeducational Studies, with $5 million in separate federal grants, will support students, train early intervention specialists and advance research.

Reading is fundamental at all grade levels, but third grade is a student’s most pivotal year — the one where they transition from learning to read to reading to learn. That is what makes the results of the 2023 English language arts (ELA) MCAS assessment so alarming. Tragically, less than half of Massachusetts third graders read proficiently.

We explore some essential writing techniques to help college students and freelance writers overcome challenges and become better writers.

With students who entered high school during the pandemic starting to apply for places, admissions officers feel ill equipped to judge their readiness

Students here remain far behind in educational skills, while federal program for kids in military families excels