With a years-long shift to skills-based instruction and grading, this district found an unexpected outcome—an increase in AP ...

Want to help your 11th-grader in English Language Arts? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom. Read closely from rich and challenging 11th grade level texts, with ...

Researchers found that a child's ability to self-regulate is a critical element in childhood language and literacy development, and that the earlier they can hone these skills, the faster language and ...

Pause a moment to consider the way we’ve been grading our students’ work since time immemorial. The way we allocate points on the basis of apparent quality. The way we struggle to be fair in giving ...

Raymond A. Mar receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada. We all know that reading is good for children and for adults, and that we should all be ...

Want to help your second-grader master the basics of English Language Arts? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom. Use what they understand about a sentence to ...