Is The Cat in the Hat Racist? asks Stephen Sawchuk in Education Week. In honor of Read Across America Day, which is celebrated on the...

Elementary schools are dropping homework in favor of reading, reports Greg Toppo in USA Today. There’s “very little correlation between...

Forty percent college orientations include discussion of a common summer reading assignment, reports Dana Goldstein in the New York...

“Three of four African-American boys in California classrooms failed to meet reading and writing standards” on state exams, reports Matt...

Stephen L. Carter was a math-science nerd at Ithaca High, when his 10th-grade English teacher, Judith Dickey, taught him to read — read...

Bob Dylan’s Nobel speech — he gave it just in time to collect the $900,000 literature prize — pays tribute to Buddy Holly, folk music and...

Educators are teaching reading wrong, argues Mark Seidenberg, a University of Wisconsin neuroscientist, in Language at the Speed of...

. . .  researchers trained adults to read in a new language, printed in unfamiliar symbols, and then measured their learning with reading...

First graders are better readers than they were 12 years ago, according to an Ohio State study, reports USA Today. Students are learning...

Focusing on the racial achievement gap obscures the underlying problem, argues Ian Rowe, a visiting fellow at Fordham. The family...

Authors and educators talked about the children’s book that influenced you the most at a writing conference, reports Education Week....

Five teen-agers who defaced a historic black schoolhouse in Virginia last year have been sentenced to read one book a month for the 12...

Edutopia’s list of 20 “indispensable” books for high schoolers is “dominated by perennials” like George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four,...

I Can’t Answer These Texas Standardized Test Questions About My Own Poems, writes Sara Holbrook in the Huffington Post. Old STAAR...

School assignments killed his son’s love of reading, writes Tony on Leading Motivated Learners. Reading logs and summaries became a...

Diana Senechal criticizes our cultural emphasis on takeaways, “the surety squeezed from things unsure,” in a TEDx talk. Teachers must...

Who’s your daddy? asks Ian Rowe, a Fordham fellow, who leads two charter schools in the South Bronx. That’s the message on two mobile DNA...