After decades of stagnating reading performance, American literacy levels have begun to drop, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a program of the Department of Education.

Timothy Shanahan, a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has spent his career evaluating education ...

But an in-depth look at the science behind how language is developed reveals an interesting parallel between the science of reading and second language learning. In fact, the science of reading can ...

There are many sounds in English that don’t exist in Spanish, and vice versa. Take the sound the letter “z” makes in English, or the rolled “r” in Spanish. In the Southside independent school district ...

Exactly how much reading of whole books—especially novels—students should be doing is a contested topic, with no clear ...

Mr. Donahue teaches high school English at Greenwich Country Day School in Connecticut. In her memoir, Dorothy Allison writes, “Two or three things I know for sure and one of them is that telling the ...

The Common Core has now been around long enough that it’s all that many of the students we teach in college have known, and ...

Chris Stanislawski didn’t read much in his middle school English classes, but it never felt necessary. Students were given detailed chapter summaries for every novel they discussed, and teachers ...

Chris Stanislawski, 14, poses for a portrait outside of his home in Garden City, N.Y., on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. Chris didn’t finish any books in his 8th grade English class, in part because their ...