Western Australian author Hamish Kelly has struggled with reading for almost two decades. In his first of two books, he ...

Nearly a year ago, when Education Week hosted an online conference about adolescent literacy across the content areas, we got a lot of interested and enthusiastic responses from participants. But we ...

Source: Aaliyah Williams During this Black History Month, let us attend for a moment to the reading achievement gap, as it affects all of us regardless of race. Here's why. Lack of literacy is linked ...

Children's reading skills have been declining for some time now. Apart from the known fact that boys' reading skills are worse than girls', it is also common knowledge that they are less motivated ...

On the first Sunday of the month, in cafés and libraries and the backs of quiet bars across the world, something faintly strange happens. Thirty or forty strangers gather, order a drink, and then sit ...

This is the first of two stories focusing on teaching Milwaukee students to read. This is part of the By the Book series, which examines reading curriculum, instructional methods and solutions in K-12 ...

But too many American school children don’t comprehend well on reading tests because they don’t have brain words. Many schools stopped teaching brain words—that is to say, spelling—about three decades ...

A House-passed bill that would bar third graders with reading problems from moving to the fourth grade breezed through the Senate Education Committee on Thursday without objection. The measure, House ...