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Four books including “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” by Mark Haddon, “Future Home of the Living God,” by ...
Fifty-four percent of English learners at this school are reading and writing at grade level by third grade, according to their scores on Smarter Balanced, the state’s standardized test. That’s more ...
TOKYO -- The Eiken Foundation of Japan has introduced a new level of the Eiken English language proficiency test, "Grade Pre-2 Plus," starting from the current fiscal year. The new level is ...
At Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, D.C., the 11th-grade honors English students are reading The Kite Runner. And students like Megan Bell are reading some heavy-duty books in their spare ...
Teachers fit books in with other ‘spinning plates’ Even in well-resourced schools, one thing is always in short supply: time. Terri White, a teacher at South Windsor High School in Connecticut, no ...
The reading list introduced several new books for students in prekindergarten to eighth grade that feature LGBTQ characters as part of the school system’s English language arts curriculum. The ...
In New York, where I was in public elementary school in the early ’80s, we did have state assessments that tested reading level and comprehension, but the focus was on reading as many books as ...
The all-volunteer nonprofit has been putting much needed and appreciated books in young students' hands since 2005 ...
The Grade 2 student was struck by a speeding vehicle while crossing the road on her way home for lunch Tears flowed as the community laid to rest the eight-year-old whose dreams were cut short early ...
NPR's Scott Simon speaks to author Jamil Jan Kochai and his 2nd-grade teacher, Susannah Lung, who taught him how to read and write English after his family moved to the U.S. from Pakistan.
Since this decision, eight of 15 high schools have replaced Grade 11 English course materials with Indigenous books including Indian Horse, In this Together and Seven Fallen Feathers.
A 10th grade student at Urbana High School transformed a completed writing prompt from a fifth grade English language arts class assignment into a published children’s book.