More children carry an ADHD diagnosis than a decade ago, and the headlines swing between epidemic and overdiagnosis. A large genetic study from Denmark points to a calmer truth. The net widened to catch milder, real cases, not a generation of broken brains.
Fort Worth is screening up to 1,000 children for dyslexia this summer, far beyond the early grades. Finding them early is the right move. But identification is only step one, and what happens after the flag is what actually changes a child’s reading.
Dyscalculia gets far less attention than dyslexia, yet it shapes how a child meets math every day. This month a free parent workshop and a new research review put it in focus. Here is what both mean for your family and where to start.
A simple tool called the dopamine menu is helping families support focus without a new app or prescription. Here is where it came from, what the science does and does not say, and how to use it well with a child who struggles to start.
Connecticut’s Right to Read law is catching young readers’ struggles years earlier, screening K-3 children three times a year. Early districts already report gains. Here is what the shift means for parents, why timing matters so much, and the staffing gaps still standing in the way.
Virginia lawmakers advanced a $205 billion budget that adds $148.4 million for special education students, a $1.4 billion K-12 increase, and a 4 percent teacher raise each year. It now waits for Governor Spanberger to sign before July 1.
Every military move has meant relearning a new state's homeschool rules. A bill introduced in Congress this month, the COMPASS Act, would let military families keep their home state's rules during relocations. Here is what it would do and where it stands.
If you have watched a child fight a page of twisting letters, you know how early reading shapes how kids see themselves. A new picture book about reading with dyslexia has won a top UK award, turning one artist’s struggle into a celebration of creativity.
Worried AI is doing your child’s thinking for them? You are right to be. At a recent educator conference, teachers reframed classroom AI as a tool whose value depends on how students are taught to use it: a coach for thinking, not a shortcut around it.
For years many classrooms taught children to guess words instead of decode them, failing the readers who needed real instruction most. Ontario’s new kindergarten curriculum builds explicit phonics in from the start, following the Right to Read inquiry, to catch reading struggles years earlier.
