Welcome to Teaching in Room 9, the area's largest classroom. I'm Mrs. Forth from the Rockwood School District. We're gonna have a lot of fun this week talking about fluency. That's right, we're really ...

With the new school year now rolling, teachers and school leaders are likely being hit with a hard truth: Many students are not proficient in reading. This, of course, presents challenges for students ...

When students record themselves reading aloud using an app—and then listen back to reflect on their own pacing and expression ...

To argue that schools are over-teaching phonics is to risk being seen as a naysayer—someone who believes the tide will ...

“Because we do so much multi-step problem solving, and we’re doing two-step word problems, if they’re spending 10-15 minutes trying to figure out what 9x7 is, they’re doing a lot of extra work, or ...

A key part—though surely not the only part—of early-grades math is ensuring students get the basic arithmetic functions down and, beyond that, making sure they’re able to swiftly and automatically ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Missouri students are headed down a dangerous road. Only 30% of the state’s ...

Missouri students are headed down a dangerous road. Only 30% of the state’s fourth-graders are reading at grade level. The numbers are even more alarming for Black and Hispanic students in the state.

April 2, 2026 - Julie Edwards' daughter brought home a Chromebook from school in second grade to work on math and reading. But soon she was watching Youtube videos. CLARIFICATION: The article was ...

The science of reading has made a much-needed comeback in recent years, with several states enacting policies for educators training on it. However, fluency practice doesn’t have to occur only at ...