Foundational decoding skills and their impact on comprehension beyond elementary school offer insights into supporting ...

Despite expectations that students master basic reading skills by third grade, many continue to struggle with reading into upper elementary school and beyond. A recent study commissioned by the ...

Some research indicates that chronic absenteeism can lead to negative academic outcomes, such as lower grades, test scores and reading comprehension ... Searching for a school? Explore our K-12 ...

Early and targeted interventions are critical in helping these students understand increasingly complex tests, a study finds.

This revamped program also includes oral language, vocabulary, reading fluency, and comprehension. The decision to introduce evidence-based teaching—rooted in explicit instruction—is supported by ...

Then there are metacognitive processes that good readers employ, like monitoring their comprehension ... an ecosystem in 6-12 for reading instruction like we have in K-2?” ...

Timothy Shanahan, who sat on the 2000 National Reading Panel and later helped develop the concept of disciplinary literacy, took questions from EdWeek on how it fits into K-12 schools’ larger aims on ...

In a recent story for The Atlantic, Rose Horowitch addressed the decline in the ability of college students at elite institutions to handle a traditional workload. Nicholas Dames, a Columbia ...

New students at top universities can face many intimidating challenges. Reading a book isn’t supposed to be one of them.

Lucy Calkins was an education superstar. Now she’s cast as the reason a generation of students struggles to read. Can she ...

The adults running the K-12 education system are failing to prepare students adequately. Reading comprehension is a requirement for functioning as a productive adult. It helps students process ...