Adult literacy challenges deepen health inequities, limit opportunity and are linked to incarceration. Even so, efforts to ...

Restoring literacy demands we treat reading as more than a skill, but as a gateway to wisdom and understanding.

How is the new literacy curriculum different? For the past few years, the Philadelphia School District has used a homegrown curriculum created by Philadelphia teachers. This curriculum, shared with ...

Ms. Jackie, a teacher at Detroit Prep in Detroit, MI, works with her first grade students. The newest NAEP results landed this week – with a thud. Twelfth-grade reading proficiency fell to 35% and ...

Literacy rates are declining, screen time is increasing, and experts are sounding the alarm on the death of parents reading to their children. Though it is critical for their cognitive development, ...

Educators face urgent questions around misinformation, academic integrity, and critical thinking around AI. Visual literacy ...

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 ...

With the recent release of the National Assessment of Educational Progress results, some may be tempted to make sweeping curricular changes or bemoan the state of education after seeing a decline in ...

Award-winning secondary teacher Anthony Merlino is well aware that students’ literacy progress can show up in seemingly innocuous ways.

When local students’ summer of fun ends, one nonprofit is looking to continue the joy with its reading program this school year. Literacy Connects’ Reading Seed program has helped thousands of Tucson ...

When Memphis-Shelby County Schools leaders looked at students’ results on spring reading tests, they saw signs of growth. For example, 22.4% of third- through eighth-graders scored proficiently on the ...

University coursework often requires students to analyze arguments, assess evidence, and present balanced views. News ...