Reading programs in the Valley are an important resource for children. Here's how communities are building these initiatives.

Despite warnings from early childhood experts against too much screen time, schools' reliance on educational technology for grade levels as low as transitional kindergarten has grown — and frustrated ...

“Progressives” at teachers’ colleges pushed a reading technique called “Balanced Literacy.” Instead of memorizing sounds and ...

Aldeman: Practical guide offers concrete tips and embedded QR codes that link to videos of teachers putting those strategies ...

Bright Star Elementary students build confidence and reading skills by reading to goats Comet and Cosmo in a fun, low-pressure literacy program.

When Mississippi reformed its reading curriculum in 2013, scores for the state’s elementary school students soared. Inspired by the “Mississippi miracle,” other Southern states followed suit. But the ...

We need to fight against our history’s erasure ...

I t was December 2025, and Katie Tobin’s kids were fighting again. This time it was because her six-year-old, Tori, wasn’t ...

A new curriculum teaches young children how to break down words by their sounds and then put them back together.

But I think it's also because reading instruction became lazy and political. "Progressives" at teachers' colleges pushed a reading technique called "Balanced Literacy." Instead of memorizing sounds ...

"basic" levels, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress and in many states, reading outcomes have ...

The landscape of how children engage with stories continues to shift in ways both subtle and profound. Greg Soros has observed these evolving patterns throughout a career dedicated to creating content ...