In the corner of Fletcher Elementary School’s “west wing,” Blade Ellis’s fourth-grade classroom is bustling with excitement.

I vaguely recall learning about Valentine’s Day and all its trappings in first or second grade at Monroe Street Elementary. Mrs. Sullivan was the teacher. Friend Jerry Sullivan’s mom. Jerry the ...

South Central Calhoun is a rural school district in northwest Iowa with about 900 students, and is now home to three ...

This is not comparable to word learning in children. By around age two, typical English-speaking children learn approximately ...

They found that students assigned to teachers who used more mathematical vocabulary in their lessons made greater progress ...

Before babies learn to use the language spoken in their home, they babble and coo, playing with sound. That's baby talk, and baby talk sounds similar the world over. Babbling and cooing are all part ...

What is word stress and how do we use it? In words with more than one syllable, there’s usually at least one syllable that sounds clearer or more obvious. Maybe it’s stronger, louder or higher. For ...

Across the country, parents are discovering that what their children bring home from school looks very little like what they once learned. It isn’t just math — reading lessons, writing expectations, ...