Children with hearing difficulties who experience early reading struggles are at risk of developing poor mental health outcomes, world-first research led by Australian Catholic University shows. The ...
A big problem in schools is the troubling number of students who read below their grade level. Nadine Gaab, Ph.D., an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, says ...
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 ...
It’s not news that vast numbers of kids can’t read proficiently. The mystery is why so many parents don’t seem to care that their children can’t read well. If parents are willing, there’s a way to fix ...
As a high school science teacher, Fawn Phillips, who’s been teaching the subject since 1999, said she had never really thought about the problems her students were having with reading—nor did she have ...
Dyslexia affects 15-20% of people, according to the International Dyslexia Association, but from slow or inaccurate reading to poor spelling to trouble with comprehension, the severity of dyslexia ...
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 ...