The NEA's online courses favor progressive fads over teaching.

Doing what works -- and avoiding fads and ideology -- would improve learning dramatically.

Twenty percent of high school graduates have trouble reading anything more complex than a restaurant menu.

Schools want to teach "critical thinking" without teaching knowledge. It can't be done.

"Back to basics" won't help Northern schools catch up to Southern Surge states in reading. It takes a lot more.

We "think and read less, and see and feel more."

Two-thirds of Americans don't read well enough to evaluate scientific or medical claims.

Education reforms are working in the South, and they can work in blue states too, if there's political leadership.

If students don't learn facts, they won't be able to understand what they read or think deeply or critically.

Toddlers (at least some toddlers) can learn to read with help from a parent tutor, says father.

Fewer young people are reading books for pleasure.

Christian microschools are booming in Arizona, as parents use ESAs to fund the school of their choice. Chandler Fritz taught a summer reading class.

Reading scores are rising for elementary students in New York City, Indiana, Louisiana and elsewhere as schools adopt research-backed methods.

Humanities would get more respect -- and graduates would earn more -- if professors made classes harder.

While nearly all private high schools require summer reading, most public schools do not. Some ask students to listen to music or watch a movie.

Simplistic, heavily political YA books turn students off to reading.

Teachers aren't prepared for middle schoolers who can't read very well.

Kids' picture books build vocabulary, knowledge of the world and a sense of how stories work.

English teachers still teach classics, but think students relate more to "diverse" young-adult books.

Lowering the definition of "proficient" reading would end the "reading crisis," writes education professor. But one-third of students are very poor readers.