In the perfect world, students would read the texts we carefully curate for them with equal attention and care. In reality, many students struggle with college-level readings, either giving up on ...

Educators are rethinking how reading should be taught in schools. New research has highlighted flaws in decades-old methods. As a result, dozens of states have passed laws or implemented new policies ...

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Visited recently by one of his former students, Minnesota teacher Eric Kalenze was ...

January 22, 2026 - Fausto Lopez finished high school, got an associate degree and applied to attend a four-year college - all while inside juvenile detention. CLARIFICATION: The article was revised on ...

Technology is changing how we read—and that means we need to rethink how we teach. Linus Merryman spends about an hour a day on his laptop at his elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, mostly ...

Re “‘Kids Can’t Read,’ and the Education Establishment Faces a Revolt” (news article, April 16): Congratulations to Sarah Mervosh for her article about reading instruction that gets beyond stale ...

Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify Claude Goldenberg’s title. Writing about the ongoing debates in reading instruction can sometimes feel a bit like time travel. Take this passage, ...

A nonprofit group is trying to stop a new state law requiring “the science of reading,” underscoring how money and ideology influence the national debate. By Sarah Mervosh When Gov. Mike DeWine of ...

Christine Braid consults as a literacy facilitator for Tātai Angitu, Massey University. She received funding from the Ministry of Education for a research project (2015-2017). James Chapman is quoted ...