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Corrected: This story has been updated to note that the cancellation of contracts to develop U.S. Department of Education’s What Works Clearinghouse practice guides affected at least two guides that ...

Reading fluency — the ability to read accurately, automatically and with appropriate expression — remains a critical yet often overlooked component of literacy development. According to the National ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- A report released by the US Department of Education Monday found little movement in math and reading skills among the nation's fourth and eighth-grade students. According to ...

Until a couple of years ago, Lucy Calkins was, to many American teachers and parents, a minor deity. Thousands of U.S. schools used her curriculum, called Units of Study, to teach children to read and ...

This country has a big problem: its children are not good readers. Five years after the pandemic first closed the nation's schools, national test scores show students backsliding in reading all over ...