Kids learn to read, and then they read to learn. That’s the saying, at least, and even if the reality is more complicated ...

Students at R. Brown McAllister Elementary School use exercises in phonemic awareness—the ability to recognize and manipulate the sounds in English—during literary instruction on March 19, 2025, in ...

Reading achievement has been stagnant in the US for decades, raising questions about what other methods might work to help ...

In a new book, researcher Timothy Shanahan argues that giving students easy texts is holding back US reading achievement ...

Milwaukee is facing a significant reading crisis affecting the majority of its students. Milwaukee education and civic leaders have formed a new coalition to unite various school sectors on this issue ...

As poverty rates rise, reading proficiency rates tend to fall. But poverty is not destiny, and some schools and districts hugely outperform what might be expected of them based solely on which ...

Nationally, fourth grade students’ reading scores have been sliding for a long time.  But in the past five years, Louisiana ...

Since 2011, Operation Literacy has been sharing the joy of reading and writing. Jennifer Jenkins was one of the originals who helped create Operation Literacy. She now serves as the group’s CEO. She ...

Kids' reading scores across the country and in New York remain chronically and stubbornly low. A recent national report shows high school seniors are reading at lower levels than at any time since at ...

Eucators from a variety of perspectives are coming together on a new reading coalition in an attempt to help Milwaukee kids – finally – learn to read.