Frank Cottrell-Boyce tells MPs to focus on early-years reading, with more support for parents and nursery workers ...

We’ve been having a debate about “book bans” in recent years, but given the steep decline in student literacy, the deeper ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not all children learn to read in the same way, but schools tend to adopt a single approach to literacy. luckyvector/iStock via ...

As a former English teacher with a background in literacy education, I’ve seen how imperative it is that kids have a solid reading foundation. At the same time, as a mom to three young kids, I feel ...

Joshua McGoun, a K-12 public-school teacher in Frederick, Maryland, first noticed a change in his students about 10 years ago. They began to struggle with focus. Increasingly, younger kids were not ...

U.S. reading scores have dropped for a decade, with most states stagnating—signaling a long-running "reading recession." ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

Almost every state in the analysis saw improvements in math test scores from 2022 to 2025. Student absenteeism also declined ...

Reading is an essential life skill that predicts success on many levels later in life. There is clear evidence demonstrating that young people who do not learn to read proficiently are more likely to ...

Lists of the books included in curricula show middle school students are expected to read four to seven books in a school year.

The general assumption in our culture is that children must be taught to read. Vast amounts of research go into trying to figure out the scientifically best way to do this. In the education stacks of ...