New research shows early humans created structured ancient symbol systems 40,000 years ago, long before formal writing ...

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...

Early European hunter-gatherers developed a sophisticated method of information storage long before the advent of formal ...

An Alamance County middle school teacher helped her students analyze texts to improove their reading comprehension.

It is a great day to learn something new. Have you ever read a text and noticed that the author seems to be giving you, as the reader, information that they want you to believe? Well, there are three ...

Lucy Calkins, founding director of the Reading and Writing Project at Teachers College, Columbia University, is one of the most influential literacy educators in the country. She is the author of the ...