We hear it all the time: AI is changing the world. It’s an easy thing to say, but when the hype is this loud, it’s hard to tell what’s real and what’s just noise. Experts and opportunists start to ...

Allycia Uhrhan’s 6th graders at Truman Middle School in St. Louis started their field-science week collecting data on fish hatching at nearby Forest Park. But the trip really started the prior week, ...

New edition builds on the widely used prior version—now expanded to 530+ questions, added diagnostics, difficulty ...

Imagine opening a book that knows exactly what you want to read. Not just the genre, but the pacing you prefer, the ...

When you get lost in a book, you often enter a trance-like state similar to meditation and that state is deeply protective.” ...

Researchers explored how manual and keyboard practice influenced children's abilities in their reading and writing learning process. 5-year-olds were taught an artificial alphabet using different ...

For Lisa Parry, a 12th-grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT ‒ which serves up fresh ideas. Before her students ...

Corrected, May 23, 2024: An earlier version of this article erroneously presented synthetic phonics and the science of reading as synonymous terms. The headline and body copy have been updated to ...

My reading life informs my writing life in a way that shapes how I show up on the page. In 2025, I read several books by ...