Monroe, a city of about 48,000, has a challenging student population. Median household income is less than half the national ...

As a next step, we linked inadequacies in literacy skills to the long-term impact on students. Our high school already supported an initiative where we prompted students to be ready for employment, ...

At Russellville City Schools, we embraced the science of reading in 2016 before most state and local districts by returning our attention to the literacy concepts that had been in place since 1998 ...

Use a curriculum rich in content. “The rigor of the writing is based on the content,” White observes. “When students write about something, there’s understanding at a deeper level.” And with rich ...

When students are acquiring foundational literacy skills, it’s beneficial to teach them how to decode words along with how to encode, or spell, them.

Introducing a nontraditional sport, such as archery, can play a big role in terms of student belonging and diversifying participation.