Look Closer: How to Get More out of Reading — a hitchhiker’s guide to a galaxy of words

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is an entertaining companion on a literary tour of how good writing works (and how bad writing doesn ...
Education Week

How One District Approaches the ‘Science of Reading’ With English Learners

First grader Aizlynn Castillo works on an assignment in Diana Oviedo-Holguin’s English-learner class at Heritage Elementary ...

Children learn to read with books that are just right for them – but that might not be the best approach

Reading achievement has been stagnant in the US for decades, raising questions about what other methods might work to help ...

Dictionary.com’s word of the year is ‘6-7.’ But is it even a word and what does it mean?

Dictionary.com’s word of the year isn’t even really a word. It’s the viral term “6-7” that kids and teenagers can’t stop ...

Mass. House passes reading bill years in the making, rebuffing powerful teachers union

The bill’s passage marks a rare setback for the Massachusetts Teachers Association, although the legislation still needs ...
The Oakland Press

Will Michigan’s literacy laws move districts to science of reading curriculum?

Last year, Michigan approved two new literacy laws aimed at districts using programs that are not aligned with what’s known ...

Buy Books And Never Read Them? There's A Japanese Term For That.

In Japan, there’s a term for this phenomenon: tsundoku.

Girlfriend’s chilling words to partner before ‘deliberately crashing car’…but he woke from coma long enough to tell all

A MUM-TO-BE accused of deliberately killing her boyfriend in a car crash made a chilling 10-word speech before ploughing into ...

Chilling diaries of two teens who took own lives months apart after speaking to AI chatbots reveal same three words

TWO teenagers who never met took their own lives months apart – and left behind the same diary entries. Sewell Setzer III, ...

Here's how much Ronald Reagan hated tariffs, in his own words

Ontario Premier Doug Ford's television ads only scratched the surface: 'Protectionism has no future; it's a dead and ...

Mass. House leaders, lamenting lagging reading scores, plan vote on literacy bill Wednesday

Massachusetts House leaders plan to pass a bill this week that that would require school curriculums and teacher training be ...

Sequoia’s Roelof Botha warns founders about chasing sky-high valuations as the firm doubles down on its selective approach

At TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco last week, Sequoia Capital’s global steward Roelof Botha fielded exactly that query, and his response drew knowing laughter from the packed house: “One of the ...