Fewer children are reading for fun - but parents are trying everything from AI to dramatic voices to keep them engaged ...
Dozens of parents attending McPolin Elementary's Literacy Night already know the importance of family reading. “Very important,” said dad Peter Odoherty. “I tried to read to them as much as possible ...
Seung-Hee Claire Son, an educational psychology professor and director of the EARLY lab at the University of Utah, spoke of ...
Jeana Wallace never enjoyed reading as a child. The books she read in school didn’t interest her and “constant deadlines made it even harder to connect with the stories,” she said. Reading was a chore ...
The benefits of developing an early love of reading are well known, but recent reports have shown that literacy rates continue to decline globally. With unprecedented competition for children’s ...
It’s a summer day and it's too hot to play outside. Your child is glued to a screen, content to spend their day with air-conditioning and digital media. Sound familiar? It’s the time of year when many ...
What nurtures a child’s holistic development? How can we address the cognitive overload and parent-child disconnect of the ...
Gen Zzzzs want to put this precious parenting pastime to bed. Snuggling up under a kiddo’s comforter to read the little one a bedtime story is a total snooze-fest for moms and dads in their early 20s, ...
In light of recent alarming NAEP scores in the U.S. and the familiar tendency to assign blame for reading struggles on parents, it’s worth revisiting a piece by Australian cognitive psychologist ...
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of parents who object on religious grounds to a Maryland school district’s policy of preventing them from opting their children out of LGBTQ+ ...
There are new legal filings aimed to help foster children who struggle with reading. One parent 8 News Now spoke with hopes ...