Retention by itself is not a solution. It has to be paired with tutoring, intervention and consistent support for the student ...

A one-on-one reading tutor works with a student at 95th Street School in Milwaukee. A renewed focus on literacy across the public school district and the city is backed by tutoring groups, the new ...

Children who are struggling to learn to read often need intervention—targeted instruction beyond what they receive in class to help grow their skills. But not every intervention is a good one, says ...

Literacy rates in the United States have been declining for over a decade, with the COVID-19 pandemic worsening the trend. Experts suggest that language development begins in utero and that reading to ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

There are two reasons why I don’t want to look at my phone right now. The first is that as I’m writing this in mid-October, it’s peak hurricane season here in Florida, and that means that whenever ...

State lawmakers have passed a slate of comprehensive reading bills in recent years that aim to align schools’ teaching, curricula, and professional development with research on key foundational ...

Callula Killingly received funding from the QUT Early Career Researcher Scheme and the university's Centre for Inclusive Education. Learning to read is a complex process. It requires children to ...

When it comes to reading, the nation's third- through eighth-graders are still mired in a pandemic-era slump, according to new testing data. In math, the news is only a little more heartening: Student ...

At some point over the past 15 years, kids stopped reading. Or at least their teachers stopped asking them to read the way they once did. We live in the age of the reel, the story, the sample, the ...