EdSource · How a California professor once coded secrets in music (rebroadcast) Years ago, I coached my 8-year-old son’s basketball team. A few games into the season, a parent berated me for not ...

After decades of stagnating reading performance, American literacy levels have begun to drop, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a program of the Department of Education.

Jess Hutchison’s daughter Sawyer, 8, is often bored by the books she gets assigned based on her reading level at school. And she’s not the only one. “Many of them are dumb. They’re just nonsensical,” ...

It makes sense that for kids to learn, they should be gradually eased into more challenging material. But how gradual is too gradual? In a powerful new book, researcher Tim Shanahan argues that ...

Psychologists love to measure things, and perhaps nothing has been measured as much by psychologists as reading—both texts and readers. Multiple different instruments measuring text readability have ...

The Florida Department of Education has released the scores for its English language arts assessment, a measure of grade-level reading among the state’s third-graders. In Manatee County, there was a ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver Public Schools officials say a “culture of literacy” has led to a higher rate of K-3 students reading at grade level, but literacy rates have still not returned to pre-pandemic ...

Concern over a new requirement that third graders read at grade-level to move on to fourth grade has created a "sense of urgency" in at least one north Arkansas elementary school, faculty said. That ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Timothy E Shanahan, University of Illinois Chicago (THE CONVERSATION) After decades of ...