BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Learning to read does something to the brain beyond teaching it to decode text. A new study in Cortex found that adults with formal reading education recruit a distinct region on the right side of the brain when processing unfamiliar spoken sounds. Adults who never learned to read show […]
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No, you're probably not losing your hearing, and it's not just the actors.
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The Mississippi Department of Education announced on May 21 that 75.6% or 24,118 of third graders passed the initial administration of the third-grade reading assessment.
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A high school teacher's TikTok sparked a serious conversation about screen time, low expectations, and the surprising role BookTok is playing in the literacy crisis.
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The Swedish government is battling declining literacy rates and has focused on bringing back physical books to schools and encouraging handwriting, the BBC reports. However, the return of analogue devices has drawn criticism from technology companies, teachers and computer scientists, who say the approach will limit students’ future employment opportunities and even harm the country’s […]
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Public services such as education and electricity have become expensive private commodities amid a complete collapse of public infrastructure.
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State Rep. Cathy Joy Loy, a Republican from Carthage, said her bill seeking to automatically retain Missouri third-grade students who are struggling to read is a “tourniquet” to “stop the bleed of children who are not reading.” But speaking to the Senate Education Committee Tuesday morning, school administrators said literacy rates are showing improvement three […]
Second Lady Usha Vance on Monday announced the launch of a new children’s podcast centered on reading aloud and promoting childhood literacy, adding another initiative to her public effort to address declining reading proficiency among young Americans.
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A rural Michigan school district could be the test case for those leading the backlash against screen time in schools.
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In early 2026, a small group of first-grade students at Lucy Wortham James Elementary School in St. James, Missouri, sat together sounding out words. Kim Williams, the school’s principal, watched as they worked through the lesson. One young boy caught her attention. “This student had struggled significantly the year before and often avoided reading tasks,” […]
A former head of the Oregon School Boards Association says the governor could reverse Oregon's poor reading scores by mandating that new elementary school teachers pass an exam in the science of reading.
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The Missouri House this week passed bills cutting extraneous teacher training requirements and adding supports for literacy in elementary schools. At the halfway point of the legislative session, the House has approved eight education bills. The Senate has passed one bill related to education, which would allow students in urban school districts to miss school […]
It’s one bandwagon that might be worth jumping on, but it’ll need to steer around some potholes
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Filipino learners struggling with reading and math may soon benefit from new educational materials designed to strengthen foundational skills both in classrooms and at home. Publishing house Lampara Books on March 3, rolled out its first-quarter collection of learning resources aimed at improving reading comprehension, early literacy and numeracy among young students. The materials include…
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A bill that would ban three-cueing and establish new reading assessments was discussed in the Senate Education Committee on Wednesday. After legislation prohibiting three-cueing as a primary instructional method passed last year, legislators are now aiming for an outright ban. Three-cueing, also known as the Meaning Structure Visual system, teaches kids to read by using […]
Vice Mayor Jason Lee joined actress and author Tiffany Haddish in South Stockton to mark Read Across America with a day focused on literacy and youth empowerment. The pair visited…
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Michael Daube, founder of the nonprofit CITTA, wanted to bring a school for girls to one of the most rural and conservative parts of India. In the region known as Rajasthan, the literacy rate for women was among the lowest in the country. There were few to no opportunities for girls to learn, and, for many, the only path in life was marriage.
There was just one problem with the plan: the…