A newly passed Kentucky law is changing how children will be taught to read while laying out new ramifications for educators ...

Have you ever felt such discomfort and despair while practicing English listening? I am currently in the depths of despair myself. Why is the rhythm of native English so distorted at the word level?

Earlier this school year, I worked on a special writing and emotional-literacy skills project with my students and another third-grade class. The goal was to introduce the students to haiku poetry and ...

Just like ChatGPT and other generative language models train on human texts to create grammatically correct sentences, a new modeling method trains on recordings of birds to create accurate birdsongs.

Teaching poetry is daunting for high school teachers. Nevertheless, we know that effective poetry instruction is good for students. It is an opportunity to explore often-underutilized speaking and ...

Songbirds provide a tractable model system to study mechanisms of vocal production and sequencing, and past work showed that the lesions to LMAN, the output of a basal ganglia thalamocortical loop, ...

Baroque German composer Johann Sebastian Bach produced music that is so scrupulously structured that it’s often compared to math. Although few among us are emotionally affected by mathematics, Bach’s ...

Dividing words into syllables is an essential skill for reading, writing, and pronunciation. Understanding how to break down complex words makes them easier to read and spell. In this article, we’ll ...