Kids learn to read, and then they read to learn. That’s the saying, at least, and even if the reality is more complicated ...

Students at R. Brown McAllister Elementary School use exercises in phonemic awareness—the ability to recognize and manipulate the sounds in English—during literary instruction on March 19, 2025, in ...

Dozens of states have passed laws directing a “science of reading” approach to helping struggling students. But who is ...

Reading achievement has been stagnant in the US for decades, raising questions about what other methods might work to help ...

Assembly Bill 1454 marks a turning point in California in a long-running debate over how to teach kids to read. For decades, ...

Exactly how much reading of whole books—especially novels—students should be doing is a contested topic, with no clear ...

As poverty rates rise, reading proficiency rates tend to fall. But poverty is not destiny, and some schools and districts hugely outperform what might be expected of them based solely on which ...

Caroline M.L. Hunter has lived in Cambridge for more than five decades and worked at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin High ...

One of my daily challenges as a parent is getting my fourth grader to read for 30 minutes as part of her homework. It’s not because she struggles with her reading skills; she actually reads well-above ...