Picture a Grade 4 teacher standing in front of her 36-strong class. The teacher asks the children to look at her as she holds ...

For years, the country’s lowest-scoring students were steadily improving on national tests. Starting around 2013, something ...

Japan ranked either first or second in all three categories—literacy, numeracy and adaptive problem-solving skills—of an international survey of adult skills. The Organization for Economic ...

For the mayor, the local education sector should focus more on developing students’ basic literacy and numeracy skills in their early years that will enable them to cope with more complex ...

The latest national test scores show that Maryland’s K-12 students are performing below average in math. Maryland’s fourth ...

A new bill, AB 1121, would require all schools to use a method based on the so-called “science of reading,” which emphasizes ...

Are you a good fact-checker? It is International Fact-checking Day and here you can test yourself: Take our fact-checking ...

A slew of statewide education projects focused on improving literacy were suddenly put on pause last week after the U.S.

Boys are left out of important conversations about sex, relationships and consent – here’s what we can do to change this.

A proposed law would require schools to use the phonics-based approach to teach reading. Critics say it harms English ...

“No one ever picked it up, nobody cared,” she said of the failure of her school and family to recognise her learning ...