In early reading, first graders who are behind have an 88 percent chance of still being behind in fourth grade--rigor and ...

Congress ended funding for Reading First in 2009. The more recent science of reading movement, though, has been propelled by ...

Enter Project Jedi, which launched in 1984. The project was a five-month experiment named after “Star Wars’” Jedi knights.

Explicit instruction in how tone is conveyed in writing helps students become more thoughtful readers and more precise, ...

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Hello, everyone, and welcome to Dark Reading Confidential. It's a podcast from the editors of Dark Reading, bringing you real stories straight from the cyber trenches. I'm your host and Dark Reading ...

When asked what her greatest accomplishment was over 28 years of experience, Ranae Seykora talks about her time as a kindergarten teacher. While teaching in Bemidji, the new Nevis superintendent said ...

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...

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 ...

Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once children learned how to read words, no one taught them how to make sense of the ...

When Carson Bridges entered the classroom, she unknowingly joined a long-running fight about how to teach children to read. For decades, most elementary schools across the country, as well as colleges ...