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fromScary Mommy
1 week ago

How Inquiry-Based Preschool Helps Kids Think For Themselves

Preschool is crucial for early brain development and fosters lifelong learning and critical thinking skills through inquiry-based education.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

Why Handwriting Is Better for Your Brain Than Typing

Handwriting activates motor, language, and attention systems more fully than typing, improving memory through deeper processing and supporting cognitive health.
Education
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Your Child's Pediatrician May Be Able To Provide Literacy Screenings

Pediatric centers are screening children as young as 3 for literacy skills to address declining reading proficiency.
Education
fromwww.npr.org
3 weeks ago

Cursive is back. But should students be learning the skill?

A middle school cursive club in Virginia has sparked widespread interest in reviving cursive writing instruction across multiple states.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

It's like a giant book club': how schools are getting children excited about reading again

Research has shown there is a reading for pleasure crisis among children in the UK, where enjoyment of books has fallen to its lowest level in two decades. Not so here at Christ Church primary, a tiny Church of England school tucked behind the maze of HS2 construction works in Camden, north London, where children fizz with excitement about books.
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Education
fromFast Company
4 weeks ago

Gen Alpha could bring handwriting back

Over half of U.S. states now require or encourage cursive handwriting instruction, reversing a decade-long decline as research shows handwriting activates broader brain regions than typing.
Education
fromChalkbeat
3 weeks ago

NYC to expand literacy push to struggling middle and high school readers

NYC's Education Department is shifting focus from elementary literacy to address middle and high school students reading below grade level through research-based interventions.
Typography
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Left-Handers Are Better at Mirror-Writing Than Right-Handers

Left-handers demonstrate significantly faster and more accurate mirror-writing abilities compared to right-handers, supported by scientific research.
Education
fromFortune
1 month ago

America's math and reading scores tanked after schools ditched textbooks for screens-and AI could worsen the brain rot | Fortune

AI use among students risks atrophying critical thinking skills through cognitive offloading, with research suggesting harms outweigh benefits in educational settings.
Education
fromBuzzFeed
1 month ago

35 Teachers Are Sharing The "Basic" Things Students Apparently Cannot Do Themselves Anymore

Teachers report students increasingly lack basic life skills and foundational academic abilities, from self-care tasks to fundamental math and writing, with administrative support often undermining academic standards.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Walters: California's reading reforms drive push for better math skills in early grades

California passed legislation requiring phonics-based reading instruction and teacher training to address critically low student reading proficiency rates, with proposed similar measures for mathematics achievement.
Education
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Why Uneven Development Matters in Dyslexia

Dyslexia involves unexpected reading difficulty despite strong cognitive abilities; removing this concept from definitions risks harming students' education by obscuring their strengths.
Parenting
fromFuturism
2 months ago

Children Starting School Are Trying to Swipe Books Like They're Phones

Many reception-age children cannot use books correctly, often treating pages like touchscreens, and heavy screen exposure is linked to developmental and behavioral concerns.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds

US researchers found that engaging in intellectually stimulating activities throughout life, such as reading, writing or learning a new language, was associated with a lower risk of Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia, and slower cognitive decline. The study author Andrea Zammit, of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, said the discovery suggested cognitive health in later life was strongly influenced by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments.
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Psychology
fromFast Company
2 months ago

Why we should worry about the recent decline of reading, according to science

Deep reading capacity and reading time have declined across ages, with digital reading causing shallower processing, lower comprehension, and reduced cognitive endurance.
Psychology
fromFast Company
2 months ago

How many words per minute can you read? Find out now

RSVP enables reading hundreds of words per minute while shortening eye movements and suppressing inner speech, increasing speed but reducing accuracy.
Education
fromNature
2 months ago

How learning handwriting trains the brain: the science behind the cursive wars

Cursive penmanship is being reinstated in schools because pen-based letter production activates the brain more than typing, though cursive-specific benefits remain limited.
Education
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 month ago

UK's most misspelt words revealed in study of nearly one million schoolchildren

A study of 530 million spelling attempts from nearly 937,000 UK pupils identified the most commonly misspelt words, with 'February', 'definitely', and 'license' ranking in the top ten.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Tech Tools for Spelling May Stunt Children's Literacy Growth

Rather than using the visual word form area in the reading brain, where images of correct spellings are stored in long-term memory for automatic proficient reading and composing, kids use technology tools, eliminating human thinking and making the machine do the work. These tools can circumvent cognitive processes, hindering elementary students from developing a large bank of correctly spelled words essential for automatic reading and literacy.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Wednesday briefing: Can we turn around the growing school readiness crisis?

What many reception teachers say they did not sign up for was spending large chunks of the school day managing toileting, feeding and basic self-care because growing numbers of children are arriving without those skills in place. New data points to a widening gap in England and Wales between what parents believe school ready means and what classrooms are actually experiencing
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