Vesia Hawkins loves football, she writes on Volume & Light, which follows Nashville schools. This year, she’s taking her young cousin to...

Lilia Martinez, 15, a student in Michigan “estimates that of the 28 books she read over the last school year, both for pleasure and...

She cites cognitive scientist Daniel T. Willingham, author of The Reading Mind: A Cognitive Approach to Understanding How the Mind Reads...

For today’s teens, “time on digital media has displaced time once spent enjoying a book or watching TV,” concludes Jean Twenge, author of...

How do children learn to read? Most states don’t require new elementary and special-education teachers to show they understand the...

The right to an education doesn’t include a right to literacy — yet. However, “a judge has ruled that California can be put on trial for...

Microsoft, is trying to “schoolify” Minecraft, the wildly popular world-building game. The latest idea, Litcraft, lets kids build models...

Fordham’s Reading and Writing Instruction in America’s Schools looks at how teaching has changed in the Common Core era. Middle and high...

The Declaration of Independence includes hate speech, according to Facebook’s algorithm. Christian Britschgi explains on Reason‘s blog....

My husband’s grandson is turning 3. Mom and Dad requested a gift of Newtonian Physics for Babies. Here are some other ideas:...

IQ scores are falling, at least for Norwegian men, writes Scottie Andrew in Newsweek. For most of the 20th century, IQ scores have risen...

When novelist Ian McEwan’s son had to write a school essay on one of his father’s books, Enduring Love, McEwan “gave him a tutorial” on...

We’re teaching reading wrong, writes Natalie Wexler in The Atlantic. U.S. schools spend a lot of time on reading skills in the early...

Parents of children with dyslexia forced their school district to teach phonics, reports Emily Hanford on NPR. Upper Arlington, Ohio...

Remember Ebonics? Worried about black students’ reading skills, Oakland’s school board declared black English to be a separate,...

Reading isn’t a “general skill that can be applied with equal success to all texts,” writes cognitive scientist Dan Willingham in the New...

“The heart of our job as teachers is to know and honor children’s full selves,” writes Justin Minkel, who teaches first- and...

Reading wasn’t fun for Kathleen Carroll’s eight-year-old son. As a struggling reader, he spent his days “decoding worksheets and...

To Kill a Mockingbird is back  in Biloxi schools— with parental permission — weeks after it was removed from the required eighth-grade...

Biloxi (MS) eighth-graders won’t read To Kill a Mockingbird because someone complained, said Kenny Holloway, vice president of the school...