A much-loved Bury teaching assistant will hang up her lanyard this summer, as she retires after more than three decades of supporting children and families in the local community. Katherine Chapman ...

Washington’s pandemic learning recovery is slowing, but Kelso School District stands out. A Harvard-Stanford scorecard names ...

The tide has turned on reading instruction. Nearly all states have passed “science of reading” laws, and most researchers and educators now agree students need to learn letters and sounds explicitly ...

That’s become a common complaint from parents. Why? It might be because kids are distracted by social media and video games. But I think it’s also because reading instruction became lazy and political ...

One of the most influential names in the “science of reading” movement has issued a surprising warning: After years of neglecting to systematically teach students foundational reading skills, he says, ...

China’s latest long-endurance stealth unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the CH-7, has completed its maiden flight, further expanding Beijing’s rapidly growing arsenal of autonomous weapons. State ...

Chinese media described the large unmanned flying wing drone as a stealth-centric, long endurance, persistent reconnaissance and early warning aircraft. China’s massive CH-7 UAV was captured flying ...

First-grader Mary Greer shows her work during a phonics-based reading lesson at Hunt Valley Elementary School in Springfield, Virginia. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post) The “reading wars” that ...

In a new book, the former schools minister Nick Gibb defends a strong, if controversial legacy. By Sarah Waite It’s fitting that the new book by former Conservative schools minister Nick Gibb reads ...

While many are familiar with the U.S. Army's Boeing CH-47 Chinook tandem-rotor helicopter, the U.S. Marine Corps used a different model, the Boeing Vertol CH-46 "Phrog" Sea Knight, which it began ...

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"When should I start phonics?" "At what age do native children learn it?" "Is my child falling behind...?" Such questions and anxieties surely cross your mind at least once when raising a child in ...