EdSource · How a California professor once coded secrets in music (rebroadcast) Years ago, I coached my 8-year-old son’s basketball team. A few games into the season, a parent berated me for not ...

After switching its elementary reading curriculum to one aligned with the science of reading, Denver Public Schools is celebrating an increase in the percentage of kindergarten through third grade ...

After decades of stagnating reading performance, American literacy levels have begun to drop, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a program of the Department of Education.

Jess Hutchison’s daughter Sawyer, 8, is often bored by the books she gets assigned based on her reading level at school. And she’s not the only one. “Many of them are dumb. They’re just nonsensical,” ...

Every year, early elementary teachers welcome students with a wide range of reading abilities into their classrooms. Some kindergarteners may be reading whole books, for example, while others don’t ...

Psychologists love to measure things, and perhaps nothing has been measured as much by psychologists as reading—both texts and readers. Multiple different instruments measuring text readability have ...

For years, the publishing industry has clung to the 'BookTok' phenomenon as proof of a literary renaissance among the youth.

I kicked off my summer one day early last semester. The day before my Math 212 final, I went outside and opened a book. It wasn’t a math textbook, though. It was L. M. Montgomery’s "Anne of Green ...

The semester has begun and with that comes the normal academic rush: preparing for each class meeting, juggling required assignments, getting ready for upcoming midterm exams. The one way to improve ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Timothy E Shanahan, University of Illinois Chicago (THE CONVERSATION) After decades of ...