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Early-elementary teachers work hard all year to support their students’ emerging reading skills. The payoff—gains in literacy progress—tends to come toward the end of the school year, just as it’s ...

February 5, 2026 - Fresno Unified invested $30 million in services that go beyond traditional academics, from housing assistance to music production and lunchtime sports. As a teacher in San Jose ...

“Go pick your bedtime book, right now,” I told my four-year-old. Afternoon meltdowns had turned into bedtime battles, and I was tired. He returned clutching the book Glad Monster, Sad Monster and ...

Parents and teachers often stop reading aloud to children as they get older and can read on their own. But reading aloud actually helps students with fluency and vocabulary and boosts their own ...

A new British survey from data company Nielsen and publisher HarperCollins found that the number of parents reading aloud to their preschool-age kids declined to just 41 percent, from 64 percent in ...