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The artificial intelligence trade has gotten crowded, two investors famous for betting against the 2008 housing market said they're looking further afield for sizable returns. Porter Collins and ...

School (s-k-oo-l) is overhauling how it teaches young students to read with new back-to-basics lessons on phonetic ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The last two years of a six-year plan to inject roughly $2 billion into public schools would be funded under Gov. Mike DeWine’s proposed budget, he said late Monday afternoon, but ...

Schools can also use Hihira Weteoro, a purpose-built phonics check to understand how a child’s reading and oral language ...

Given every two years to a sample of America’s children, the National Assessment of Educational Progress is considered one of the best gauges of the academic progress of the U.S. school system. The ...

Almost 500 years ago, a princess called Elizabeth became Queen of England. People were worried. It was unusual to be ruled by a woman, because at the time, they were seen as weak and not as clever ...

For example, eighth grade students who scored below basic in reading were typically unable to make a simple inference about a character’s motivation after reading a short story, and some were ...