There’s a deeply troubling trend missing from our current discourse around education reform in our state: Too many children start behind and sadly stay behind in school. This lack of school readiness ...

Teachers-in-training have long been taught that fourth grade is when students stop learning to read and start reading to learn. But a new study tested the theory by analyzing brain waves and found ...

Students will review a non-fiction book, and then use this research to design a poster. Students will review text features in a non-fiction book, and then use this research to design a poster. Created ...

Probably not, but researchers have long believed that it probably happened some time during fourth grade. That’s when, they thought, word-processing tended to become more automatic and less deliberate ...

This event was planned by Gretchen Hertz, Worden Elementary School STEM teacher.

The 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores underline a continuing decline in educational achievement in the United States. The Institute of Education Sciences’ tendency to ...

The Tennessee Department of Education on Thursday released statewide average 3rd grade and 4th grade results for the ELA portion of the spring 2024 Tennessee Comprehensive Academic Program assessment.

Almost five years have passed since COVID-19 first disrupted America’s schools, and new data, known as the Nation’s Report Card, offers cause for hope — and concern. The good news: In math, many ...

For the first few years of school, struggling readers can usually get by. The material is simple, the lessons are repeated often, and intensive remedial help is common. But for some of those pupils, ...

If you think you’re tired after a day of teaching, you should try being a 4th grader. I recently spent a day shadowing a 4th grade student at the school where I teach. I went home with a migraine, a ...