A growing number of teachers are speaking out about a troubling trend they say they’re seeing in classrooms: students arriving without basic academic and life skills that were once considered a given.

Her short video has sparked a wide conversation about what children are, and are not, prepared for when they walk into a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recently, this BuzzFeed article sharing firsthand stories from teachers got a fair bit of attention. In it, teachers from ...

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. The caller had personal knowledge ...

Are kids these days doomed? A concerned middle school teacher recently took to social media to explain the lack of reading and problem-solving skills in her teen students. “I don’t understand how ...

Phonics gets more attention in elementary English/language arts classrooms than other core foundational reading skills, like fluency. More generally, states’ new reading laws emphasizing foundational ...

Ready or not, across the country, a new crop of kindergarteners has entered the K-12 school system. Their teachers will spend these early weeks determining where the 5- and 6-year-olds are ...

Across the country, teachers are sounding the alarm about a new kind of gap in the classroom: kids who can code on a tablet but cannot tie their shoes, write a legible sentence, or remember their own ...