Middle and high school teachers say they don’t have enough time to support the struggling readers in their classes—and many say their school leadership isn’t paying attention to the problem. The ...

English learners are sometimes an afterthought in 'science of reading' policies. Some educators want to change that.

Until a couple of years ago, Lucy Calkins was, to many American teachers and parents, a minor deity. Thousands of U.S. schools used her curriculum, called Units of Study, to teach children to read and ...

The year COVID-19 shuttered classroom doors, St. Louis’s Premier Charter School was acclimating not only to a new normal, but ...

The coalition seeks private and state funding, potentially a disputed $49 million in state funds. Leaders from MPS, charter and voucher schools are collaborating, though teacher union representation ...

If you’re a parent of a young reader, would you rather start off in Manhattan or Mississippi? The answer may surprise you. Today, fourth-grade students in Mississippi read almost a full school year ...

Instilling a life-long love of reading in children, particularly through my work on “Reading Rainbow,” remains one of the greatest honors and joys of my career. And yet, after years as a literacy ...

Literacy proficiency scores for elementary school students in Merced fell by 8 percentage points during the pandemic. Five years later, those scores remain low, which has led Merced City School ...

Merced City School District superintendent Julianna Stocking participates in Reading Across America recently at an elementary school. The district is working to improve poor literacy proficiency ...