It’s back to basics, with a twist. Schools Chancellor Joel Klein unveiled his new reading and math curriculums yesterday, promising more Dick and Jane and less fuzzy math – while still letting ...

Young children who spend more time learning about the relationship between letters and sounds are better at counting, calculating, and recognizing numbers, a new study has found. Researchers from ...

American students are struggling with reading. And the country's education system hasn't found a way to make it better. In fact, fourth and eighth grade reading scores on the National Assessment of ...

These four programs are more like traditional drills than any others in our roundup this year. Each is a two-CD set that covers the basics you'd find in a school curriculum. Talking heads, instructive ...