Why do so many students struggle to understand what they read, even after they learn how to read? That’s a topic of hot debate among reading researchers. One camp has been arguing that schools have ...

Educators are rethinking how reading should be taught in schools. New research has highlighted flaws in decades-old methods. As a result, dozens of states have passed laws or implemented new policies ...

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Visited recently by one of his former students, Minnesota teacher Eric Kalenze was ...

In this undated photo, Mattison Hingano, left, and Dawan Coombs, right, collaborate together to implement research strategies in Hingano's seventh grade reading class to help struggling adolescent ...

Post by Joanna P. Williams, Teachers College, Columbia University Many children who do not have trouble learning how to read do have trouble understanding what they read. Yet surprisingly, ...

Anne Arundel County Public Schools’ first year using an evidence-based curriculum to teach reading has been embraced by students and teachers despite a few shortcomings, which include the rigid ...

For Lisa Parry, a 12th-grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT ‒ which serves up fresh ideas. Before her students ...

The so-called reading wars have consumed a lot of oxygen on social media, in professional development, and teacher discussions—for at least 30 years and probably longer, and certainly before there was ...

A nonprofit group is trying to stop a new state law requiring “the science of reading,” underscoring how money and ideology influence the national debate. By Sarah Mervosh When Gov. Mike DeWine of ...

EdSource · Rural schools lose a lifeline to mental health support after Trump cut funding Rural schools lose a lifeline to mental health support after Trump cut funding September 25, 2025 - Schools ...

On a given day in Marivel Yanez’s kindergarten class at White Elementary in Tucson, reading lessons go beyond what is in paperwork and regulations. There’s dancing, singing, clapping — and excitement.

Teachers film their student's reactions as they tell them they inspire them to come to school and teach. Video provided by Metropolitan Omaha Educational Consortium. Reading Lessons: With low reading ...