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

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

Most English majors at two state universities in Kansas can't read and understand Dickens' Bleak House.

Angie Hackman teaches chemistry -- and reading, reports Hechinger's Julian Roberts-Grmela. Every teacher at Health Sciences High and...

Teaching students about religion is fine in public schools, writes Natalie Wexler. "Inculcating specific religious beliefs" is not....

Once students have learned phonics, what's next? Reading comprehension relies on a blend of decoding, vocabulary and general knowledge,...

Students who don't learn to decode quickly and automatically do not improve their reading comprehension.

Many college students don't do the work -- perhaps because they have trouble reading and understanding college-level texts.

Students taught a structured, knowledge-rich curriculum starting in kindergarten earned higher reading, math and science scores in third...

Adam Kotsko, who teaches humanities at a small liberal arts college, finds that even his best students are unprepared to read and...

College students have trouble reading anything long or complex, complains Adam Kotsko, in Slate. He's taught humanities classes in small...

It doesn't matter what kids read as long as they're reading, people often say. Maybe so. But for "developing readers," leisure reading...

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

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