To enhance reading comprehension, you need to read.” Someone shared this comment on the guide I published yesterday on my ...

Imagine opening a book that knows exactly what you want to read. Not just the genre, but the pacing you prefer, the ...

Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once children learned how to read words, no one taught them how to make sense of the ...

Over the past decade, a majority of states have passed new “science of reading” laws or implemented policies that emphasize phonics in classrooms. Yet the 2024 results of an important national test, ...

In classrooms across the country, teachers are rethinking how students build reading comprehension — not just how they decode words, but how they make meaning from text. That shift is part of a larger ...

We hear it all the time: AI is changing the world. It’s an easy thing to say, but when the hype is this loud, it’s hard to tell what’s real and what’s just noise. Experts and opportunists start to ...

In a world drowning in information, the real threat is not the burning of books, but the extinguishing of thought ...

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I emphatically agree with “Without Reading, There Is No Learning,” by Tim Donahue (Opinion guest essay, Feb. 25). On the first day of my freshman writing class last semester at the University of ...

As a pediatric speech-language pathologist and a mother of a child in San Diego public schools, I’ve seen California’s early literacy crisis firsthand. Many of the kids I serve have phonological ...