A big problem in schools is the troubling number of students who read below their grade level. Nadine Gaab, Ph.D., an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, says ...

This is the first of two stories focusing on teaching Milwaukee students to read. This is part of the By the Book series, which examines reading curriculum, instructional methods and solutions in K-12 ...

In a late-session surprise, the Louisiana House has overwhelmingly approved a bill that would bar third graders with reading problems from moving to the fourth grade. Around 4,500 of Louisiana's third ...

Nearly a year ago, when Education Week hosted an online conference about adolescent literacy across the content areas, we got a lot of interested and enthusiastic responses from participants. But we ...

In a refreshingly quick and direct response to the latest U.S. Department of Education report on the nation’s reading problems, Scholastic, Inc. launched on April 30 two new programs to improve the ...

A House-passed bill that would bar third graders with reading problems from moving to the fourth grade breezed through the Senate Education Committee on Thursday without objection. The measure, House ...

Source: Aaliyah Williams During this Black History Month, let us attend for a moment to the reading achievement gap, as it affects all of us regardless of race. Here's why. Lack of literacy is linked ...

What mystifies many parents is where and why the reading process breaks down. Although, problems may occur in any area, decoding, comprehension, or retention, the root of most reading problems, in the ...

FARGO - When Bergen Lindahl was about 3 years old, she couldn't sit still when her mother read to her. "She was never curious about the words. She was only curious about the pictures," mom Beth says.

Millions of American students fell far behind in their education during the past two pandemic years. But many of the problems affecting U.S. public education predated COVID-19 and are largely ...