Young Rosie Solis of Ohio knows it is better to give than to receive. according to a news report by Julie O'Neill on WCPO-TV in Cincinnati. When planning for her 7th birthday party earlier this month, Rosie told her parents...
The neat cursive script scrawled across the whiteboard in Caroline Mooren's fifth-grade classroom took time to perfect. As a resident teacher at Manor Heights Elementary in Casper, Wyoming, last spring, Mooren was teased by her third-grade students about her scribbly...
Much greater consistency of initiatives is required if Pakistan is ever to improve its overall literacy rate, as this remains too huge a task to be fulfilled within the tenure of a single government, according to writer/researcher Syed Mohammad Ali....
Most teachers expect to correct their students' spelling mistakes once in a while. But Ken Smith has had enough. The senior lecturer in criminology at Bucks New University in Buckinghamshire, England, sees so many misspellings in papers submitted by first-year...
For more than 30 years, English teacher Carol Eubanks-Riccardi has prepared for the start of school by updating lesson plans, honing teaching skills and decorating her classroom. No matter where Eubanks-Riccardi has taught since 1977—across the country and overseas—the routine...
The school district of Eagle County, Colorado, is changing the way it teaches reading to elementary students this year. For the first time, every elementary school will be using a standardized, districtwide program to teach reading instead of their own,...
Ghoti and tchoghs may not immediately strike readers as staples of the British diet; and even those most enamoured of written English’s idiosyncrasies may wince at this tendentious rendering of “fish and chips.” Yet the spelling, easily derived from other...
East Stroudsburg University wants to help children become better readers—by helping their teachers get better at teaching them. This fall, ESU in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, is offering graduate courses in literacy coaching, which the faculty describes as a cutting-edge field....
Some Texas parents will have to wait until October 8—more than six weeks after the first day of school—to find out whether their children are entitled to transfer to a higher-performing campus under No Child Left Behind. Parent advocates said...
That's my girl, I thought, as Olivia tore away from us to join the other 5-year-olds for circle time—legs crossed, hand stick-straight in the air in response to the teacher's question about how the kids spent Father's Day. My husband...
For some, the term "home schooling" might evoke images of conservative Christian families or isolated rural areas. But according to the National Center for Education Studies, the number of African Americans being home schooled is growing. On National Public Radio,...
Almost one in three 14-year-olds in England are failing to reach the standards expected of their age group in reading, Sats results have shown. Sats are national tests that assess student achievement. Boys are faring worse than girls when it...
The report, "Parents' Reports of the School Readiness of Young Children from the National Household Education Surveys Program of 2007," has been released by the National Center for Education Statistics within the Institute of Education Sciences. Some findings: • Overall,...
Growing interest in publicly funded programs for young children has drawn attention to whether and how Head Start and other early childhood programs should be asked to prove their worth. Congress asked the National Research Council for guidance on how...
As report cards go, Montana's schools are in for a doozy later this month. Preliminary reviews of the state's No Child Left Behind test results show that 71% of the schools passed their adequate yearly progress threshold. Last year,...
