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...

"Chatty Chick chats in church" in a poem used by reading tutors. Last year, the second grader I was tutoring was shocked at Chatty...

Dr. Seuss has been uncanceled for Read Across America Day, which falls on his March 2 birhday. The White House proclamation quoted the...

Characters can be "enormous" and "beastly," but not "fat" or "ugly," in the new sensitivity-edited versions of Roald Dahl's children's...

"We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom," Martin Luther King Jr....

Dr. Seuss's Sneetches learn that outward differences don't matter. There's no need to pay to get a star added or removed from their...

Liberal educators aren't making the case for liberal arts education, writes John Agresto, former president of St. John's College in Santa...

Black leaders have transformed reading instruction in northern Virginia, reports Sarah Carr in the Washington Post. The Fairfax County...

Memphis high schools are teaching reading skills to teenagers who didn't learn to read well in the early grades, reports Sarah Mervosh in...

Third graders are way behind in reading, reports Hechinger's Jill Barshay. These students, who were in kindergarten when their schools...

In Florida, which pioneered school choice for special-needs students more than 20 years ago, students with disabilities are doing very...

Parents are positive thinkers: 92 percent say their kids are doing reading and math at grade level, even after the pandemic, according to...