Loralyn LaBombard is the only reading specialist at Bow Memorial School, a middle school serving grades 5-8 in a leafy town outside Concord, N.H. In the world of literacy education, that is not an ...

What if improving children’s reading skills didn’t start with another worksheet, but with a rescue mission? Across ...

While kids today have more entertainment choices than ever, books still hold incredible power to inspire, engage and grow ...

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 ...

A little girl stared at a list of test questions in her science class, unable to answer the majority. Resigned, she wrote at the top, “I failed badly” — although she misspelled it, instead writing, “I ...

Learning to read is a complex process. It requires children to master and integrate multiple skills, from mapping abstract symbols to the right speech sounds to understanding what all the words mean.

HOUSTON – Inside a classroom at Black Elementary, the air is steady with the sound of students reading out loud. Some follow English passages. Others work through Spanish. Each child moves at a ...