What Kids Are Reading is the world’s largest annual study of K–12 student reading habits. The all-new 2021 edition provides insight on reading trends during the pandemic, diverse titles that support social-emotional learning, and much more.

Attentive coaching and carefully crafted assessments guide high school students toward literacy skills that last a lifetime.

Educators were forced to think big when schools were thrust into crisis, and not just about how to use technology.  

Image analysis prompts students to linger longer on photos and other images to "read" what is being said and identify fakery, writes Frank Baker, an education consultant and author of "Close Reading The Media." In this blog post, Baker writes that students can enhance their critical-thinking skills by answering questions, such as who took the…

Teaching appears prone to faddism, writes Jonathan Zimmerman, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. In this interview, Zimmerman highlights a few potential causes, including the lack of consensus about what good teaching looks like and the expensiveness of practices that are known to work.

En landsomfattende undersøkelse av vold, overgrep og psykisk helse blant ungdom i Norge våren 2020. (pdf)

Forskere ved Nasjonalt kunnskapssenter om vold og traumatisk stress mener det særlig er tre ting kommuner som stenger skolene, kan lære av nedstengingen i fjor.

Quality listening takes time and practice to perfect, but it is an essential skill for school leaders, asserts Megan Collins, former teacher and current educational consultant.

This report is an analysis of multiple data sources collected over several months of engagement with educators, parents, and other educational stakeholders. It maps the main challenges, opportunities, support systems, and uses of educational technologies in the English education system since Spring 2020. (pdf)

This report presents the ways in which educational technology can best be used to support teaching and learning for school-aged pupils, particularly when traditional education is disrupted. The work we report here is unique in its synthesis of the multiple voices that contribute to the education ecosystem. It is pragmatic and future facing, with an…

A controversial study that suggested engaging primary schoolchildren in philosophical discussions could also improve their maths and reading has been undermined by new research that found little or no improvements in those subjects.

An online writing group—which could be adapted for in person learning—builds confidence in students’ ability to express their ideas.