Turning shame into purpose: A Springfield mentor helps kids learn to read

Inside one Springfield Church, a woman is changing the lives of dozens of children all because she decided to turn her shame into purpose.

Westfield’s first-graders are using virtual learning to read

The success of virtual tutoring program being used in Westfield's elementary schools to help first graders learn to read has confirmed independent research that it significantly boosted reading ...
Princeton University

'Learning to see and learning to read': Artificial intelligence enters a new era

For artificial intelligence to realize its potential — to relieve humans from mundane tasks, make life easier, and eventually invent entirely new solutions to our problems — computers will need to ...
Business Insider

For Gen Alpha, learning to read is becoming a privilege

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Joshua McGoun, a K-12 public-school teacher in Frederick, Maryland, first noticed a change in his ...
Medical Xpress

The brain on books: How reading reshapes language processing

Learning to read reshapes how the brain processes language. New research from Baycrest and the University of São Paulo shows that learning to read fundamentally changes how the brain responds to ...
Los Angeles Times

Could phonics solve California’s reading crisis? Inside the push for sweeping changes

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 ...
AZ Central

Learning to read can be difficult. How this group is teaching Arizona students to love it

Reading can unlock the world. It allows us to communicate, express ourselves and move throughout the world. However, not all Arizona students leave elementary school with the reading skills they need ...
Wakefield Express on MSN

'I used to hide my letters' – Wakefield woman tells how learning to read changed her life

A Wakefield woman who spent years hiding unopened letters because she couldn't read them has spoken about how learning to ...
USA Today

When do kids learn to read? Here's when you should be concerned.

Every parent of multiple children will tell you that each child does things at their own pace and in their own way. For instance, one child might love baseball and excel at throwing one while another ...
PBS

Learning to Read with Apps

Literacy-focused, educational apps are nontraditional ways to help kids practice reading. Educational apps help families balance learning and fun. Apps like PBS KIDS Games, featuring some of the most ...
NPR

A new way of teaching kids to read in Georgia

Outside, it was summer, but inside John Lewis Elementary School in Macon, Ga. Quantesha Pittman was teaching third graders to build words. "What's that first sound again?" she asked the room of about ...
The New York Times

Kids Aren’t Learning to Read. This Mom Has a Surprising Solution.

From New York Times Opinion, I’m Lulu Garcia-Navarro, and this is “First Person,” a show where we talk to people about how they come to their opinions and what it means to live with them. I’d never ...