Reading and math achievement was improving, until 2013. Then it started to slide, even more the pandemic.

The neediest students are the least likely to be taught by teachers who understand and use the "science of reading."

Teaching phonics is essential, nearly everyone agrees. But for how long? And which skills?

Ed school makes sure new teachers think the right thoughts about SEL, anti-racism and social justice.

The NEA's online courses favor progressive fads over teaching.

Doing what works -- and avoiding fads and ideology -- would improve learning dramatically.

Twenty percent of high school graduates have trouble reading anything more complex than a restaurant menu.

Reading scores are rising for elementary students in New York City, Indiana, Louisiana and elsewhere as schools adopt research-backed methods.

The first step in improving education is to stop doing stupid things.

Education isn't on the national agenda: Politicians argue about library books and locker rooms, but not about raising achievement.

Reading scores are up in Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and Tennessee . Other states are trying to follow the leaders. Only one in...

Massachusetts parents are suing a "balanced literacy" publisher and authors for fraudulently claiming their programs are "researched-based."

"Balanced literacy" guru Lucy Calkins has become the " scapegoat for America's reading crisis ," suggests Helen Lewis in The Atlantic. ...

A majority of Wisconsin students -- about three out of five -- score below "proficient" on state tests, write Danielle DuClos and Kayla...

Spending more on special ed doesn't lead to better outcomes. Teaching reading well does.

States are jumping on the "science of reading" bandwagon, writes Sarah Schwartz for Education Week. New York, Massachusetts, Indiana,...

There will be no reading "miracles" without effective teachers, warns the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) in a new report....

More than 90 percent of parents think their child's elementary school and teacher are doing a "good" or "excellent" job of teaching...

Low-performing California schools improved third-graders' reading by training teachers in how children learn to read, according to a new...

To kill a vampire permanently dead, you'll need to hammer a wooden stake in its heart, shoot it with a silver bullet melted down from a...