Phonemic awareness refers to the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds—also known as phonemes—in spoken words. This skill is foundational for reading and writing, as it helps ...

Two years after a new literacy law, all Green Bay kindergarteners are reading at or above grade level. However, reading proficiency declines in older grades, with over half of fifth graders reading ...

The board in 2024 approved a maximum of 65 minutes per day of screen time for kindergarten through second grade and 120 ...

CHICAGO — The Cook County Board of Commissioners and the Justice Advisory Council joined together Wednesday on Chicago’s South Side, during Gun Violence Awareness Month, to announce a funding ...

A majority of teacher-preparation programs now give aspiring educators opportunities to practice all essential components of reading instruction—but many still train educators in outdated or ...

Community programs are more effective at reducing violence than simply making arrests, advocates say Homicides in the US have fallen dramatically in recent years after a spike during the Covid-19 ...

Stopping intimate partner violence before it escalates is the goal for Women’s Crisis Services of Waterloo Region by supporting men identified in domestic violence calls. Engaging Men, launched about ...

While most efforts to combat domestic violence focus on victims, survivors and breakdowns in systems meant to protect them, one Cook County program is shifting the work to the abusers and breaking the ...

When central banks in the world’s large economies slashed interest rates after 2008, smaller emerging market economies, especially in Asia, faced a flood of capital that caused their currencies to ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A Nashville program is taking a different approach to reducing violence — one focused on prevention rather than punishment. The Group Violence Intervention program launched ...

Accessing early intervention services like speech, occupational, physical or behavioral therapy in the first years of life can lead to more than developmental gains, new research suggests. Children ...

For a short period, I worked with a community-based gun violence prevention organization that received federal support and state funding through the Office of Gun Violence Prevention. During that time ...