Thirty-eight percent of teacher-education programs are failing to prepare future teachers to teach reading using the most effective...

"Back to basics" education isn't enough, writes Gillian Richards on The American Conservative. "Some conservatives have responded to...

Charter schools are outperforming traditional public schools, according to a new study by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes...

Which books should kids be reading, asks Robert Pondiscio. He talked to Casey Churchill, who runs Liberty Common School, a Colorado Core...

Thousands of Tennessee children will be going to summer school -- or repeating third grade, reports Chalkbeat's Marta W. Aldrich. Sixty...

Only 6 percent of eighth-graders can read Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech and identify two ideas from the Constitution or...

New Jersey just doubled the percentage of students who are "graduation ready" in reading, writes Chrif Cerf, the former state...

New York City's public schools have been teaching reading badly for decades, ignoring research on how children learn to read, said...

The ninth-grader needed to multiple 3 x 9 to answer an algebra problem. She didn't have a calculator, and I wouldn't let her go look for...

The more students know about the world, the better they can understand what they read, writes Susan Pimentel in Education Week. The...

Skippyjon Jones, about a Siamese cat who thought he was a Chihuahua, was a huge hit when it came out in 2003, recalls James V. Shuls. His...

Teaching knowledge is not just for Republicans or conservatives, writes Natalie Wexler on Minding the Gap. Anyone who values equity...

Third-, fourth- and fifth-grade teachers have many more students who read poorly because they missed out on decoding instruction when...

Teaching phonics is a critical first step in teaching reading, but students need to build knowledge and vocabulary to get from fat cats...

If Tennessee's read-or- repeat law had been in place last year, 65 percent of third graders would have been at-risk of retention for...

Teachers' unions are pushing back against state laws requiring early literacy instruction to be based on the "science of reading," write...

Many parents don't realize how badly their children are doing in school, reports AP's Bianca Vazquez Toness. Teachers don't like to...

English teachers are teaching kids to hate reading, writes Pamela Paul, a New York Times op-ed columnist, in response to Nathan Heller's...

Third graders who read more than a year below grade level will be passed on to fourth grade in Michigan, where Democratic Gov. Gretchen...

“The last time I taught The Scarlet Letter, I discovered that my students were really struggling to understand the sentences as sentences...