Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once children learned how to read words, no one taught them how to make sense of the ...

In a world drowning in information, the real threat is not the burning of books, but the extinguishing of thought ...

In classrooms across the country, teachers are rethinking how students build reading comprehension — not just how they decode words, but how they make meaning from text. That shift is part of a larger ...

To enhance reading comprehension, you need to read.” Someone shared this comment on the guide I published yesterday on my ...

Imagine opening a book that knows exactly what you want to read. Not just the genre, but the pacing you prefer, the ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Nearly a half ...

We hear it all the time: AI is changing the world. It’s an easy thing to say, but when the hype is this loud, it’s hard to tell what’s real and what’s just noise. Experts and opportunists start to ...

A renown cognitive psychologist is touting the importance of spelling for reading achievement. In his highly regarded new book, Raising Kids Who Read [1], cognitive psychologist Dan Willingham says ...

As a pediatric speech-language pathologist and a mother of a child in San Diego public schools, I’ve seen California’s early literacy crisis firsthand. Many of the kids I serve have phonological ...

I emphatically agree with “Without Reading, There Is No Learning,” by Tim Donahue (Opinion guest essay, Feb. 25). On the first day of my freshman writing class last semester at the University of ...

Jokes about the decline in reading literacy among Americans abound, but a recent study confirms this troubling trend. Over the last 20 years, researchers found there's been a 40% decline in the ...