Public Libraries

Faltering federal investment in after-school, coupled with the high cost of participation, puts millions of children at risk. Nonprofit partners offer advice to libraries looking to serve their communities.

Use these tools to engage students of every age in Hour of Code, planned for the week of December 7-13.

Identifying students’ reading preferences (or lack of them) provides insight into their experiences and how best to help them grow and remain engaged.

While considering research material, students need to talk about whose voices are not at the table and think critically about how sources came to be.

Disinformation is surging. So are novel ways to counter it.

The News Literacy Project senior vice president for education and SLJTeen Live! lunchtime speaker answers your queries.

Learning to read is a constitutional right, but functional literacy has never been equitably attained by Americans, says Miller. Here she offers tools of empowerment that enhance information and civic literacy.

The most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress results, showing that only 37 percent of fourth graders read proficiently, renewed debates over how to teach reading.

More schools are consider new ways to add news literacy and SEL to their teaching. There’s never been a better time to combine these efforts.