When Mia Appling was in kindergarten, she was in a near-fatal car accident. Her teacher brought sympathy, warmth, and a pile of books to her hospital bed. Appling became captivated with one of those ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Gov. Mike DeWine announced new social studies initiatives Wednesday, including using history, geography and ...

March is National Reading Month, a time to reinforce your own good reading habits and teach them to your kids.

The Colorado Department of Education wants to create new training to help teachers learn how to better support English ...

Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once ...

As a coalition representing educators, parents, business leaders, and other advocates, we were disturbed by the Feb. 4 op-ed “The fallacy of settled science in literacy.” Nancy Carlsson-Paige ...

Amid a deepening national literacy crisis, awareness is growing that far too many California children do not know how to read ...

This is a response to Nell V.’s letter encouraging parents to teach their children to read before entering kindergarten. She had some good thoughts (not rushing was my favorite). I have taught reading ...

Research shows Oregon’s reading scores have continued to fall in recent years. Why is that, and how do we fix it?

A Tennessee student, William A., sues the Clarksville Montgomery County School System after graduating with a 3.4 GPA but ...

and that the focus should be on teaching skills. Content skeptics also point out that there’s never been a study to show that increasing knowledge of the world boosts reading scores. It would be ...