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 ...

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 ...

America, we’ve got a middle school problem. Although reading and math scores are up for 9-year-olds on the National Assessment of Educational Progress’ Long-Term Trend assessment, scores haven’t ...

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 ...

But too many American school children don’t comprehend well on reading tests because they don’t have brain words. Many schools stopped teaching brain words— that is to say, spelling —about three ...

A viral video shows Philadelphia high school students struggling to read and comprehend a complex sentence. The student who posted the video was reportedly threatened with punishment by school ...