The children's faces lit up as she placed a carefully addressed envelope on each desk. ... This Teacher's Creative Pug Letter Project Is Helping Kids Learn. Story by Diane Nichols • 2mo.

In response, many schools are rethinking how they teach kids to read. In one New York City first grade classroom, Melissa Vega-Jones goes letter by letter, teaching the specific rules that form ...

Nearly 70% of the nation’s fourth-graders cannot read properly. Lumeez/peopleimages.com – stock.adobe.com. The inability of America’s children to read proficiently is frightening.

5. There is no single effective teaching strategy. We have to use them all. Diana Wolff, Rancho Palos Verdes.. To the editor: I am so happy that phonics will be a focus in California schools again ...

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges details her friendship with retired teacher Barbara Henry, who is the subject of her new children's book, "Ruby Bridges: A Talk with My Teacher." ...

It's just undeniably better to teach your children how to think, find facts on their own and how to communicate well without some machine doing research and work for them.

I just finished my 66th, and last, semester of teaching high school English. A few years ago, as part of being a mentor to a new teacher, I wrote a letter to my first-year teaching self, then gave ...