A heartfelt thank-you to Helen Lewis for her reporting on Lucy Calkins and the most recent phase of the “reading wars.” As a career English teacher whose mother was also a career English teacher, I ...

LeapFrog toys focus on crucial learning aspects for young children from a few months old to children in elementary school.

This story was produced by the Associated Press and reprinted with permission. Math is the subject sixth grader Harmoni Knight finds hardest, but that’s changing. This story also appeared in The ...

To curate this list, he dives into Netflix’s catalogue every month to surface family-friendly titles both kids and adults can enjoy — using his taste and a lifetime of cinema study as his ...

“A lot of kids didn’t get a computer from school. They didn’t receive proper schooling that year.” Limbach emphasizes that the kindergarten through third grade years are crucial for ...

In Wisconsin, lawmakers have already agreed: Schools must update the way they teach kids to read ... schools to shift to a phonics-based approach, meaning students learn how to sound out parts ...

“What I’ve seen is it’s very hard for families to know and see what good learning looks like, and whether that’s the reality for their kids,” Winthrop said. While the gap between parents ...

Tapping across the Tappan Zee, Marc This newsletter’s title is borrowed from the 1993 album “Not for Kids Only,” in which Garcia — you know, Jerry Garcia — and David Grisman, a folk ...

Google has partnered with Samsung on a “Galaxy Watch for Kids” experience that is rolling out starting today and will be available in the “coming weeks.” This is a “new way to set up ...

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