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 ...

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 ...