By Ellen Gelman Imagine being a high school student sitting in a room where everyone around you seems to understand texts ...

A popular infographic gives the misleading impression that current approaches to reading comprehension are grounded in science. A simplified version of a decades-old report on reading instruction is ...

LAFAYETTE, La. — Prime Time Head Start at Immaculate Heart of Mary is one of the organizations involved with the Prime Time reading program. "The purpose of the program is to bring families together ...

A child’s individual differences, skills and experience matter a lot in the learning process, and learning to read is no exception. That’s why new legislation based on the erroneous assumption that ...

Significant changes in reading curriculum and instruction are coming to Ohio elementary schools — and they couldn’t come soon enough. For decades, ineffective methods have plagued classrooms, leaving ...

The state that jumped from 49th to ninth nationally in reading is now guiding other states seeking literacy improvements.

The reading wars have become a tool used to further polarize and divide an already fraught educational climate, and the victims of this war are our nation’s students. At the forefront of conversations ...

Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas has nudged parties at odds on how early literacy should be taught to agree to legislation that could significantly advance reading proficiency in California. After weeks ...

This story is reported by South Dakota News Watch, a non-profit news organization. Find more in-depth reporting at www.sdnewswatch.org. SOUTH DAKOTA (SDNW) — South Dakota educators have pointed to ...

The Georgia Department of Education is placing 60 literacy coaches in elementary schools full-time to address the reading and learning needs of students in Georgia’s lowest-performing 5% of schools.

The Georgia Department of Education's move to place full-time literacy coaches in 60 of the state's high-need elementary schools is producing results in the Bibb County School District and elsewhere, ...

A new Oklahoma bill inspired by Mississippi's success aims to improve literacy by retaining third-graders who fail reading tests and implementing summer academies.