The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is inviting fifth and sixth grade writers and artists from around Illinois ...

Lucy Calkins was an education superstar. Now she’s cast as the reason a generation of students struggles to read. Can she ...

The program places volunteers — anyone who has time and a desire to help kids — with third and fourth grade students for one ...

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A 2020 report by a nonprofit described Units of Study as “beautifully crafted” but “unlikely to lead to literacy success for all of America’s public schoolchildren.” The criticism became impossible to ...

On squid dissection day at Forest Glen Elementary School, fourth grade teacher Jorie Dragas leads her students through a ...

Musicians have long taken inspiration from poetry for their work; here are four rock songs that pull from well-known poems.

Thanksgiving poems full of gratitude Thanksgiving often inspires us to get a little poetic. Thinking and speaking about the ...

When I came back from Iraq, I carried with me the images of landscapes littered with ruined bodies. To deal with the stew of ...