Amid gamified lessons, video-directed read-alouds and assigned work on tablets for students as young as age four, at least 16 ...

Diamond, a third grader in Jefferson Parish, does a timed reading exercise with her summer school teacher, Emily Gurtner. Emily Gurtner sits at a small table in the corner of her third-grade classroom ...

Annie Murphy Paul is the author of the forthcoming book Brilliant: The New Science of Smart. Take a guess: What is the single most important year of an individual’s academic career? The answer isn’t ...