Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Over at City Journal, E.D. Hirsch argues that the most important function of ...

Research shows that using games increases classroom participation, improves collaboration, and fosters social and emotional learning. These vocabulary games for home and the classroom for kids ages 4 ...

The stronger a child’s vocabulary, the more successful she tends to be in school, and new research shows that the word-building can begin before kids start talking. Child development experts have long ...

To succeed in school and beyond, children need to build a robust vocabulary. Kids learn a lot from the adults in their lives and there are many ways you can help your child learn new words. We reached ...

David Dickinson receives funding from the Institute for Educational Science at the US Department of Education. If you want your child to have a rich and fulfilling life, one of the best things you can ...

Swimming a few laps likely won't turn your child into the next Katie Ledecky or Michael Phelps, but it just might help them become the next J.K. Rowling or Stephen King. A recent study suggests ...

The clues that parents give toddlers about words can make a big difference in how deep their vocabularies are when they enter school, new research shows. By using words to reference objects in the ...

No matter if you are sequestered at home struggling to homeschool your preschooler or if you are a veteran preschool teacher, here are five science-based tips for promoting the preschooler’s reading ...

Well-developed lexical representations are important for reading comprehension, but there have been no prior attempts to track growth in the depth of knowledge of particular words. This article ...

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