Reading is, in some sense, the foundational act of most college learning: it is the place where our students come into contact with new concepts, new horizons, and unsettling ideas; where they find ...

Only about one-third of elementary school students in the U.S. are reading at grade level, according to the recent National Assessment of Educational Progress. In response, many schools are rethinking ...

With schools in East Falmouth, Mass., closed for a few days thanks to a late February blizzard, Natalia Berrios tutored students in reading across six different states and taught English as a second ...

Like many high school chemistry teachers, Angie Hackman said she instructs students on atoms, matter and how they “influence the world around us.” But Hackman also has another responsibility: ...

New York's youngest students may soon see a renewed focus on phonics, as the pendulum in the age-old debate over how to teach reading swings toward the so-called "science of reading." Gov. Kathy ...

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...

Many years ago, around 2010, I attended a professional development program in Houston called Literacy Through Photography, at a time when I was searching for practical ways to strengthen comprehension ...

Laura Patranella makes it a priority to read at least one novel each year with her elementary school students, relishing both the depth of these works and students’ communal experience of talking ...

Rauno Parrila's research on reading has been funded by the Social Sciences Research Council of Canada, Government of Alberta, Alberta Teachers' Association, Australian Research Council, Finnish ...