Some parents are having trouble making sense of their kids' reading assignments while schools are closed. The explanation is a deeply entrenched by misguided approach to teaching comprehension.

Why aren’t your students doing the assigned reading? This year, that question has stumped faculty members across higher education. As people who have dedicated large chunks of our lives to books, we ...

A principal's ad-hoc decision to pull a summer reading assignment after a handful of parents slammed the book's content and language is calling into question Leon County Schools' censorship bylaws.

Students work on a literacy assignment at a Texas elementary school. Standards based on the science of reading have been shown to improve achievement. Credit: Jackie Mader for The Hechinger Report The ...

At Purdue University, librarians, instructional designers, and faculty members are working together to incorporate the concept of information literacy across the curriculum. In the past few years they ...

A new survey shows that most teachers are still gearing class reading assignments to students’ skill level, rather than--as the common-core standards envision--to their grade level. The report is ...

In second grade, Jose Alvarez struggled to read. He had fallen behind early in school. His older brothers and mother are dyslexic, and the family feared that Jose might have a learning disability too.