The overseers of the nation's preeminent reading test are squabbling, but neither side sees that the test itself is a key part of a system that fails millions of children. An effort to revise the ...

Our testing system is based on the idea that reading comprehension can be measured independently of what kids know, but science indicates otherwise. The American education system rests in large part ...

The more children know about a subject, the easier they’ll find it to read and understand a passage about that topic. It’s a simple idea that’s backed up by research: Studies have shown that students ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. The $1 billion-a-year Reading First program has had no measurable effect on students’ reading comprehension, on average, although participating schools are spending ...

Reading achievement is in the dumps. Unlike math, where kids appear to be making at least some signs of progress, reading scores continue their long-term slide. Policymakers in Washington are ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- James L. Collins, Ed.D., professor of learning and instruction in the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education, has, over the course of his 35-year career, developed many ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Science, math and reading are at the foundation of education and for South Carolina students at least one of those areas is facing major challenges. S.C. Department of Education (SCDE ...

Students learn in a Palo Alto Unified School District classroom. Embarcadero Media file photo. Palo Alto Unified School District’s early literacy program, the Every Student Reads Initiative (ESRI), is ...

ARLINGTON, Va. — Eighth-grade students in the overseas Department of Defense Dependents Schools outperformed all their U.S.-based peers for a first-place finish in reading comprehension in 2002, ...

The latest Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program test results indicate that nearly half of Maryland’s elementary and middle school students cannot read proficiently, and more than half are not ...