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These are the tools and techniques that help my students make significant leaps in learning to read.

Growing anger against Biden administration’s mandate for standardized tests during pandemic Last month, President Biden’s Acting Assistant Education Secretary Ian Rosenblum sent a letter to state education administrators instructing them that standardized tests had to be administered to students in some form this spring, summer or fall. Rosenblum—whose previous job was executive director of the Education Trust-New York, a pro-standardized testing and pro-business organization—said states could delay the tests but they could not be canceled like last spring and they have to be conducte...

Phaedra Simon, a single mom of three from Opelousas, Louisiana I'm not trained to teach them how to read. It's totally different from how I learned. Quote icon Simon worked hard to keep her children — ages 9, 8 and 7 — on track when they started the year virtually like everyone else in the St. Landry Parish school district. She even quit her job to give her youngest the attention he needed. As soon as the chance came to return to in-person learning, she seized it, even as she worries about their health. "I'm not trained to teach them how to read," Simon said. 

Students are struggling to read behind masks and screens during COVID-19, but ‘expectations are no different’ Leigh Guidry, Mandy McLaren, Laura Testino, Isabel Lohman and Gabriela Szymanowska, USA TODAY © Mary Ann Lawrence, USA TODAY Network Students are struggling to read behind masks and screens during COVID-19. Reading brings out the competitor in 8-year-old Uriah Hargrave. The second grader at Eaton Park Elementary in Vermilion Parish along Louisiana's southwest coast was thrilled to return to in-person learning in January. One of his favorite things is the Accele...