Across the country, teachers are sounding the alarm about a new kind of gap in the classroom: kids who can code on a tablet ...

They cannot apply inference; they cannot process questions that are longer than a sentence. They cannot connect cause and ...

A 2nd-grade teacher with 14 years of experience under her belt turned to Reddit to describe how, in recent years, she's noticed a sharp decline in independence among her students. In fact, she said ...

January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. The caller had personal knowledge that a recently deceased former employee of the ...

New Jersey will no longer require candidates to take basic skills tests to become a teacher in the state, under a bipartisan law Gov. Phil Murphy signed Monday — the latest change state leaders have ...

Helping students learn to read is usually the job of early elementary educators. But teachers of older children—who report that nearly half of their students have difficulty reading—say they need more ...

Hi. My name is Alexa, and I used to teach high school English Language Arts. It's a piece of lore I try to forget about — mainly because, among many frustrations, the school actively worked against ...

Phonics gets more attention in elementary English/language arts classrooms than other core foundational reading skills, like fluency. More generally, states’ new reading laws emphasizing foundational ...

A New Jersey teachers union wants to change the state's standards for entering the profession. The Garden State currently requires that candidates for teacher certification pass a basic skills test ...

Teachers in New Jersey will no longer be required to pass a basic reading, writing and mathematics test to be eligible for public schools, according to a new law. Act 1669, which was signed into law ...