Exactly how much reading of whole books—especially novels—students should be doing is a contested topic, with no clear ...

English learners are sometimes an afterthought in 'science of reading' policies. Some educators want to change that.

Edward Stratemeyer had a plan to get American children reading. An ambitious paper merchant in Newark, New Jersey, he’d ...

While PBS itself won’t shut down anytime soon, they have now lost their largest source of financial support. This loss more ...

Assembly Bill 1454 marks a turning point in California in a long-running debate over how to teach kids to read. For decades, ...

Nearly 40 percent of third graders who attend school in Little Rock's public system are "at risk" for being held back. LEARNS requires third graders be caught up at that stage, and they can't go on to ...

Without substantial reading skills, “the risk is that future generations will simply be unable to think as deeply and with as much complexity as in the past." ...

Philadelphia spent $25 million overhauling its reading curriculum. But after the first year of implementation, its reading scores on Pennsylvania state tests are going in the wrong direction.

Why are so few kids reading for pleasure? A quarter-century ago ... The struggle to find such magic books is real, said Kelsey Clodfelter, a veteran English teacher at a Chicago public high school.

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The screenings give teachers and parents early indications of areas that can help children learn to read and could point to a need for further evaluation.

I recognize I usually start with some kind of funny story or joke, but this is definitely not one. It's a simple question: Has any policy ever looked more politically dunderheaded in immediate ...