Johnny in Topeka can’t read, but Janne in Helsinki is effortlessly finishing his storybooks. Such a disparity may be expected by now, but the reason might come as a surprise: It probably has much less ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Last week, we took you to a middle school in Houston that's trying to bridge the education gap for refugee children newly arrived in the U.S. Tonight, we return to Texas to examine another program ...

Children who grow up learning to speak two languages are better at switching between tasks than are children who learn to speak only one language, according to a study funded in part by the National ...

Liane Brouillette received funding for this research from the California Department of Education and the United States Department of Education. Bringing professional actors and dancers into the ...

Novi Rahayu Restuningrum secured a funding from the Indonesian government through DIKTI program to continue her PhD from 2011 to 2015 at Monash University, Australia. The use of English in everyday ...

Spanish-speaking parents looking to help their children learn English should start by developing their literacy and numeracy in their first language, according to recently published research from the ...

New parents face a lot of pressures. Until I became a parent myself, I didn’t realize the sea of conflicting advice that besieges parents on everything from feeding strategies to whether you need a ...

Former speech-language therapist Lynn Plourde has published a new middle grade novel called “The Bionic Boy” in late October.

When New Jersey schools switched to remote learning at the start of the pandemic last year, parents everywhere scrambled to get their kids logged into online learning classes. But the struggle was ...