A recent EdSource podcast asks: “Why do so many students struggle to learn to read?” An equally essential question is: Why were so many struggling readers improving before the pandemic? The ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- March is Reading Month, and while students celebrate with their favorite books, some children are still improving their reading skills. National ...

Local YMCA Reads! program helps struggling kindergartners through fourth graders go from "learning to read" to "reading to ...

Grade retention is ineffective and expensive, but 17 states and Washington, D.C. mandate it (and at least 12 more states allow it) for students who are not reading proficiently by grade 3. The best ...

Momentum to explicitly teach phonics and use curricula aligned to the science of reading is growing. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechineger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters.” I learned to love reading as a kid, spellbound by wizarding worlds and ghost stories. I wanted ...

Holding back struggling readers may yield benefits that extend in surprising directions, a recently released study suggests, as The 74 reports. In addition to improving academic results, the authors ...

U.S. elementary school students have been displaying declining reading achievement, particularly among those who are struggling. For example, the average scores among 4th-grade students in the lowest ...

Lauren Williams' second-graders get two hours of reading and writing practice every day at Hamilton Elementary in Coon Rapids. All 27 of them learn in unison for about half that time. Each lesson ...

In a kindergarten classroom, children drilled down on the sounds different letters and combinations of letters can make, and rules to go along with them. “No English word ends in -i. Use a?” their ...

The number of struggling readers in public schools has dropped since the beginning of the school year, the Department of Education (DepEd) reported yesterday. Pointing to the implementation of the ...