To the chagrin of professionals who dedicate careers to complex solutions, sometimes the simplest intervention is the most ...

Once students can decode, they need ongoing and thoughtful instruction to understand, interpret, and engage with what they read.

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

MPS is equipping students with early literacy skills and confidence to tackle increasingly complex reading and writing tasks, ...

Students, parents and education advocates around the state say there's still a host of other needs they hope state lawmakers ...

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

Families with children who have dyslexia have long pushed lawmakers to respond to a pressing concern: Too many young students ...

Readers respond to Emily Flake’s comic strip about Alice Harvey, David Owen’s article about dyslexia, Jennifer Wilson’s piece on prenups, and Louis Menand’s essay about the dictionary.

Parents, grandparents and community advocates have driven educational change before. That leadership is needed again.

The Coalition of Rural and Appalachian Schools honored Ashley Klier for her 20 years of service and dedication to early ...

Adjust the results for such things as student poverty, and the “southern surge” is even more impressive. On a ranking compiled by the Urban Institute, a think-tank, Mississippi comes top (see chart 1) ...

Unlike other states, Oregon funds its 197 school districts but does little to hold them to account for their outcomes.