Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. A recent study finding dramatic boosts in reading achievement from a ...

In joyful preschool classrooms, three- and four-year-olds play and pretend together. They sing and dance, listen eagerly at story time, and ask endless questions. Nearly everything is new, which fuels ...

Educators don’t need to choose between building students’ knowledge and teaching reading comprehension strategies. The question isn’t whether to teach strategies—it’s how to do it and when. “Are we ...

Leaders wishing to thrive in today’s fast-changing, volatile world know they need to be constantly generating new knowledge that will translate into innovations, and encourage their teams to do the ...

“Knowledge-building” has become a buzzword in reading instruction. It refers to English/language arts approaches that aim to systematically build students’ understanding of the world—rather than ...

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