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 ...

Learning to read can become exponentially more difficult for older students and adults who have fallen behind, creating grave concerns as the number of individuals struggling with literacy into high ...

Other states have turned their results around with science-based reading instruction. We can too. Last month, the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores were released. These ...

April 12 -- Dyslexia is not just a reading problem. New research suggests that it may also be connected to a young person's thoughts about suicide. Preliminary results of a new study, presented this ...

Are students reading at all these days? Source: Liz Swan / author Every year, my writing program hosts a summer seminar in which faculty members introduce new teaching strategies (e.g., what is ...

Word problems try and tell students a story about the math problem in front of them. They are a useful way to connect abstract numbers to concrete situations, so students can learn early on to apply ...