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...

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...

Intensive tutoring is the best way to help students who suffered learning setbacks during the pandemic, but school districts are...

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...

The college admissions race is a waste of time, argues Rick Hess, education policy director of the American Enterprise Institute. Except...

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

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

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

Once students can sound out words, the next step is teaching comprehension, writes Matt Bardin on The 74. Once a middle and high school...

Students don't need to sound out words, letter by letter, teachers were told. They don't need to be taught phonics systematically. If...

The rise in screen time -- not just school closures -- is a factor in the decline in achievement, suggests Tim Daly, who runs the...