Black fourth-graders in Mississippi, one of our poorest states, are two-and-a-half times more likely to be proficient in reading as black students in California.

"Are we teaching K-4 kids that reading is just tasks, labeling stuff and filling out graphic organizers?"

A quarter to a third of middle-school students struggle in all their classes because they don't read very well.

Reading excerpts in English class, but few whole books, leaves many unprepared to read "lengthy or complex texts" in college.

"Progressives" don't want to believe education reforms can help poor children learn more.

A new IDEA would focus on student success, and reserve special ed for the truly disabled.

Teachers are seeing more middle and high school students who lack basic reading skills.

Let's learn from schools where disadvantaged children are becoming proficient readers.

Teachers should teach students how to read grade-level books instead of matching them with texts at their comfort level, says literacy scholar Timothy Shanahan.

Fewer young people are reading books for pleasure.

Ability grouping works for K-2 readers.

Reading comprehension is based on decoding, vocabulary and knowledge, say "science of reading" advocates.

Don't blame parents for children's reading struggles.

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

Third-graders at Adrian Elementary School, in the poorest county in Oregon, have the highest reading proficiency scores in the state,...

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

Perhaps college students can't read long or complex texts because they didn't read many books in middle and high school, suggests...

Phonics is back in classrooms and it's helping young children learn to read, writes Bella DiMarco, a FutureEd policy analyst, in the New...