Georgia education officials are studying Mississippi’s dramatic literacy transformation as 70$ of the Peach State’s ...

Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?

Fewer third and fourth graders are testing proficient in reading, continuing a years-long slide for Michigan's youngest readers, while sparking concern and some glimmers of hope for state politicians, ...

What was the aim of the review? Children and adolescents with an intellectual disability have below average cognitive abilities and everyday skills. In the past, no-one expected them to learn to read, ...

Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...

Reading scores are improving in Alabama, but thousands of third graders could still be held back this year if they can’t catch up over the summer. When adjusted to current benchmarks, about 88% of ...

A teacher in Washington state said he was recently fired for reading his class a passage from “To Kill a Mockingbird” without censoring the n-word. Matthew Mastronardi, a Spanish teacher at West ...

How do you know when to blink? A study shows that blinking does more than keep your eyes moist; your brain is actually timing your blinks around sentences, surprises, and the flow of a story. Study: ...

Philip Mulroe, 8, has a goal of reading 3 million words by the end of third grade, starting this summer. It follows up his successful goals of reading 1 million words as a first-grader and 2 million ...

Reading is a highly valuable skill that allows humans to acquire new knowledge, pursue an education and complete a wide range of real-world tasks. Many past psychology and neuroscience studies set out ...

The most recent round of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results delivered a familiar gut punch: Just 30 percent of eighth graders in the United States read at or above the ...

Student literacy is in trouble nationally. Illinois is one of 41 states where just 1 in 3 or fewer of its fourth-graders met reading standards in 2024. Fewer than one-third of Illinois fourth-grade ...