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As a kindergarten teacher, a big part of Violet Nye’s job  is teaching kids how to read. But the way she teaches her students is very different from how she learned as a kid. She remembers being taught to memorize whole words. Now, she’s steeped in the practice of teaching kids how to sound out words, while also building up their vocabulary and helping them lift words off the page to imagine whole new worlds from stories. A new law aims to get more California teachers to teach reading the way Violet does. It comes after years of advocacy and debate and required a significant amount of compromise.

After nearly doubling during the pandemic, the rates of chronic absenteeism in K-12 schools are finally showing steady signs of improvement.

Every Wednesday, a group of fourth graders at Winchester Elementary put on black aprons and start packing up cardboard boxes with canned vegetables and mac and cheese. The young volunteers spend their free periods prepping weekend meal boxes for around 30 Whitehaven families who line up outside the Memphis school building each Friday afternoon. It’s a routine that’s been in place since Winchester opened its food pantry in March.

Would you be able to pass a U.S. citizenship test on America’s government and history? This week, it got harder.

Lucia Ortíz trudges through endless fields of cempasuchil flowers, the luminescent orange petals of which will soon cloak everything from city streets to cemeteries across Mexico. Here, in the winding canals and farms on the fringes of Mexico City, the flower also known as the Mexican marigold has been farmed for generations, and takes the spotlight every year in the country’s Day of the Dead celebrations.

Today’s post from Larry Ferlazzo's Classroom Q&A is the latest in a series in which educators share potential challenges that might exist in teaching English learners and how to respond to them.

Beginning Nov. 1, more than 65,000 children will be at risk of losing access to Head Start, the federal early-learning program for low-income families. That's because federal funding for individual Head Start programs cannot be disbursed while the government is shut down.

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore funding for grants that are meant to bolster school-based mental health care and were created in response to the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

Elementary teachers can focus on these fundamentals of child development to support social and emotional learning.

Every morning, Arely Solis packs healthy lunches and snacks to fuel her as a full-time student at East Los Angeles College. Thanks to federal food assistance, she says she can focus on her studies rather than on where her next meal is coming from. That will change on Saturday, Nov. 1, when the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the federal program that helps feed low-income families, will be delayed indefinitely for the first time in its history.