Featured Articles
Weekly News Brief 4/21-4/27
Bill would require third graders to meet reading benchmarks – By Kim Chandler, AP News Alabama could become the next state to require third graders to pass a reading benchmark before m...
The LC Staff
Weekly NewsBriefs 3/11/24 - 3/17/24
Alabama lawmakers have approved a school choice program – By Kim Chandler, AP News Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Thursday signed legislation creating a program similar to school vouchers th...
Doug Cauthen
myON Launches New Data Reports Allowing Educators to Measure Reading with Reading™
New reporting, goal-setting, and literacy tools free teachers to spend less time assessing and more time teaching
The LC Staff
Learning Upgrade App Now Offers a Full K–8 Math Curriculum
The 180 new Math Upgrade lessons for grades 6–8 use songs, videos, and games to inspire K-12 students and adults to learn on their own time
The LC Staff
Thorndike Press Helps McCollum High School Create a Culture of Reading with Youth Large Print Books
New “Cowboys Read!” Large Print Program Removes Barriers to Reading, Creating More Confident Future-Ready Learners
Doug Cauthen
The Juice Learning Launches New Platform for Families
Shown to Improve Both Literacy Skills and Enjoyment of Reading
Doug Cauthen
Elementary Schools Using Lexia Core5 Reading Achieve Higher Scores on State Assessments
New reports from Texas and Florida demonstrate that students in grades 3-5 who use Core5 attain greater reading achievement gains than students from non-Core5 schools
Doug Cauthen
Reading is for Everyone
Our special Lunch and Learn presentations are an opportunity for you to peruse education companies that you need to know about. These companies have all been vetted and come highly recommended b...
The LC Staff
Capstone Connect
The Learning Counsel created our Lunch and Learn series as a way to introduce companies, products and services that America’s school districts and independent schools need to be familiar with. I...
The LC Staff
ISTELive 24 Interview Highlights: Jason Smith Discusses WordFlight Program
At the ISTELive 24 conference, LeiLani Cauthen, CEO of the Learning Counsel, interviewed Jason Smith, COO of Foundations in Learning, to delve into their innovative reading program, WordFlight. T...
Doug Cauthen
Reading is Still the Golden Elixir
Many experts are saying we will not be out of the woods with COVID-19 for many months. It is an instructional year that is of concern to teachers, parents, communities and even the youth. One th...
Christy S. Martin, Ed.D.
What Are Kids Reading? A Surprising Amount of Nonfiction
The latest edition of the nation’s largest student reading survey offers hope about the power of prior knowledge and the future of nonfiction reading.
Gene Kerns
The Digital Transformation of Literacy Education
How teaching reading has (and hasn’t) changed over the past 30 years.
Tyson Smith
Powering the Reading Revolution with Student Empowerment
By allowing students to show up as their authentic selves, educators can work to build confident, lifelong readers.
Yvette Manns
Cultivating a Love for Reading: The Playbook
In today’s busy world, where TikTok notifications and text pings constantly vie for our attention, it can be hard to encourage kids to sit down, open a book, and read out of sheer love for re...
Felix Brandon Lloyd
Reading at Home: The Antidote for the Summer Slump
As summer begins, a well-documented trend emerges among school age children - the well-known "summer slump." During the summer months, children typically don’t read every day – as they ...
Lilli Montague
Featured Papers
The Learning Counsel presents journals, papers and briefs on critical topics in Digital Education.
Most will require registration in order to access them, but they are all free.
Three Near-Term Innovation Areas for K12
An Essential Audio Ingredient in Today’s Accessible Learning Environments
The Gaps Remaining for District Digital Transition
5 Steps to Fixing the Hidden Traffic of Records Management Overwhelming Schools
From Chaos to Learning Recovery: Going from Manual-Digital All the Way to Efficiency
Hybrid Logistics Security
