Cody Beck reads a book that was assigned by his teacher at Grenada Middle School. Since April, Cody has been on a “homebound” program due to behavior, where he does his work at home and meets with a ...

Why do so many students struggle to understand what they read, even after they learn how to read? That’s a topic of hot debate among reading researchers. One camp has been arguing that schools have ...

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Visited recently by one of his former students, Minnesota teacher Eric Kalenze was ...

Educators are rethinking how reading should be taught in schools. New research has highlighted flaws in decades-old methods. As a result, dozens of states have passed laws or implemented new policies ...

Post by Joanna P. Williams, Teachers College, Columbia University Many children who do not have trouble learning how to read do have trouble understanding what they read. Yet surprisingly, ...

Anne Arundel County Public Schools’ first year using an evidence-based curriculum to teach reading has been embraced by students and teachers despite a few shortcomings, which include the rigid ...

New York's youngest students may soon see a renewed focus on phonics, as the pendulum in the age-old debate over how to teach reading swings toward the so-called "science of reading." Gov. Kathy ...

After 14 years in education, I consider myself to be a good reading teacher. Unfortunately, the path to getting where I am today was a long, frustrating journey. Growing up, as the child of two ...

Teaching 1st grade also means managing a lot of transitions—helping students move quickly and calmly from one activity to another, or giving them small “brain breaks” to move and stretch. At the ...

CLARIFICATION: The article was revised on April 24 to clarify that the Committee on Accreditation, by law, has the power to accredit programs. The Commission on Teacher Credentialing responds to ...

On Feb. 8, the article was updated to clarify and elaborate on details of AB 2222. A veteran legislator who taught elementary school for 16 years introduced comprehensive early-literacy legislation ...